AP African American Studies / Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom
3.7 The Color Line and Double Consciousness in American Society
Notes
W. E. B. Du Bois (The Souls of Black Folk, 1903) wrote that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line" and described double consciousness: seeing oneself through one's own eyes and through a racist society's eyes.
Practice
Double consciousness, as Du Bois described it, means:
The Souls of Black Folk.
Du Bois said the problem of the 20th century was:
1903.
The Souls of Black Folk was published in:
Du Bois.
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