“The Souls of Black Folks” investigates the concept of double consciousness. According to W.E.B. Du Bois (1903) double consciousness is looking at one’s self through the eyes of another who sees you with amused disapproval and contempt. The concept discusses the progress and the struggle for freedom that African American went through up until 1903. […]
How does it feel to be a problem? Is what DuBois is analyzing through his piece of literature. Using Ross Posnock’s view as a lens, DuBois forms a structure of American civilization and life from a colored person’s view. Through DuBois’s book, we get his perspective that were existent through the time of segregation. In […]
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Get startedIdentity Crisis in a Racist World as reflected by Toni Morrison in The Bluest Eye Abstract The present paper is an attempt to study the thematic concerns of the novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. In her first novel The Bluest Eye (1970), Toni Morrison has shown thrown light on the black consciousness of […]
W.E.B Dubois is an early African American sociologists who is devoted to seeking solutions to racism faced by the black culture of America. Most of his ideas and experiences as a member of the African American community are shared in his book, The Souls of Black Folks, in which two chapters from the book called, […]
As indicated by W.E.B Dubois, the issue of the twentieth century is the issue of the “color line” which prompted his ideas of life behind the “veil of race” and the subsequent “double consciousness”, this feeling of continually taking a gander at one’s self through the eyes of others,” have moved toward becoming touchstones for […]
