The scientific study of race is at a critical moment. With each passing year mainstream work in political science, sociology and philosophy increasingly acknowledges the contributions of W.E.B. DuBois to our thinking about the role of race in political institutions, social movements, and constructions of political identity. The conference will be held March 4, 2005 at Yale University and will include many of the growing number of political scientists from around the country who study DuBois's contributions to research concerning race and ethnicity. The participants will examine DuBois's ideas concerning norms of political leadership; the roles of gender, race and class in shaping political access; and his engagement with struggles against colonialism and scientific racism throughout his life.

This working conference is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of American Politics, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, the Center for the Study of Race, Inequality and Politics, and the Department of Political Science at Yale University.