In 1903, African Americans were fighting for the right to vote, the right to good education, and the right to be treated with equality. W.E.B DuBois wrote “The Souls of Black Folk” to demonstrate the life and time of African Americans in one of the most unequal time periods. He says that the biggest problem is the existing “color-line” that has been drawn between the white and black, setting up the society for inequality issues. He goes on to continue addressing the progress the African Americans make, the obstacles they seem to run into in the progress, and the possibilities for future trailblazing going into the century. DuBois made way for a lot of potential progress for the black community, working to found the NAACP as a civil rights activist, a public intellectual, writer, editor, historian and the first black sociologist.
W.E.B Du Bois coined the term double consciousness, explaining that it was the sense of always looking at one’s self through the …show more content…
DuBois coined the term the “veil”, which represented a concept of difference among black Americans in three main parts. First, the veil represented the actual literal difference of skin color between the dark skin of blacks and the very obvious line of the whiteness of white skin. The second part of the veil is the idea that white people have the inability to see the African Americans as “true” Americans. Last, the veil showed the African Americans lack of confidence to see themselves outside of what “white America” stereotypes them to be. DuBois uses this term to show the veil that shades both the white and black views of themselves and one another. He also goes on to use the veil to explain that even though there are very real divisions in cultures and mindsets, the reason why the blacks tend to have a better understanding of the whites than the reverse is because of the “two-ness” lived and felt by Black
W.E.B Du Bois coined the term double consciousness, explaining that it was the sense of always looking at one’s self through the …show more content…
DuBois coined the term the “veil”, which represented a concept of difference among black Americans in three main parts. First, the veil represented the actual literal difference of skin color between the dark skin of blacks and the very obvious line of the whiteness of white skin. The second part of the veil is the idea that white people have the inability to see the African Americans as “true” Americans. Last, the veil showed the African Americans lack of confidence to see themselves outside of what “white America” stereotypes them to be. DuBois uses this term to show the veil that shades both the white and black views of themselves and one another. He also goes on to use the veil to explain that even though there are very real divisions in cultures and mindsets, the reason why the blacks tend to have a better understanding of the whites than the reverse is because of the “two-ness” lived and felt by Black