black race. The introduction notably proclaims that the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line. The division of blacks and whites, is the focus point in this book and it can very much be a sociological study. Du Bois describes the history of blacks throughout periods of slavery, abolition, Share Cropping, reconstruction, education and politics. Du Bois also introduces his theory of “the negro problem.” A central theme of this work was the double consciousness that African Americans faced by being both American and Black. Du Bois defined it as a sense of looking at yourself through the eyes of others, and measuring your soul as they look on in amusement and pity. Du Bois then goes on to insist that African Americans
