W.E.B. DuBois and John Dewey

Abstract

Each of these thinkers—interestingly of the same generation—has an understanding of justice and the good that are indigenous to the American world and, more importantly, are not racist. This chapter explains the thought of DuBois and Dewey about these things and emphasizes their definitive differences from the conventional understandings of justice discussed in Part I. Both DuBois and Dewey seek an American democracy of brotherhood and sisterhood.