Anticolonial Critiques gives students a look at the work of a single theorist of anticolonial philosophy. This iteration is dedicated to the later work of W.E.B. Du Bois, the most influential thinker on race in the United States. Du Bois lived from 1868-1963 and was witness to momentous shifts of colonial modernity. Out of the nearly 70 years of his academic career, most studies of Du Bois focus on one of his earliest works—The Souls of Black Folks (1903). However, Du Bois’s writing after Souls would lead him to work in areas including psychology, literary fiction and art, photography, Marxist analysis, anticolonial theory, and direct political organizing against lynching in the US, and coordinating Pan-Africanist congresses internationally. This course will explore his writing from the 1930’s onward as his focus on international anticolonial solidarity sharpened—insights which remain helpful to explain the persistence of colonial violence into the 21st century. [Track C]