Web Du Bois

Question 1

Web Du Bois

Answer 1

focus on what he calls the negro problem

main issue was the failed incorporation of African Americans into American socoiety

Question 2

Two Main causes of the negro problem

Answer 2

Racism: prevent African Americans from advancing

Cultural backwardness: economic disadvantage, ignorance and deficiency with regard to the art of organized social life

Question 3

Double- Consciousness

Answer 3

outcome of the subjectivity lived ad felt experience of the negro problem

Main point: double-consciousness indeed as unified consciousness, causes mental trauma

African Americans always strapped between two worlds, never comfortable in either

Forced to view themselves from the eyes of racism `

Question 4

Race

Answer 4

Du Bois was the first to oppose that race was biological

declared race as a social structure

dominant view today

Question 5

Race as a social construct

Answer 5

Du Bois believed genetic differences cause certain common phenotypic traits that humans use to classify people

people choose what these characteristics are and give them meaning, making the powerful

Question 6

Du Bois and Power

Answer 6

Du Bois saw power as highly racialized

Question 7

White supremacy

Answer 7

ideology of white superiority and the reservation of positions of power for whites

can not understand American society and all the colonized regions without considering race and white-supremacy