Social Theory of W. E. B. Du Bois



Social Theory of W. E. B. Du Bois

Introduction

In Great Barrington Massachusetts 1868, W.E.B du bois was born after the Civil war took place, he was not highly familiar with the racism against the black community at the time of his upcoming, as he had enough problems with his family being extremely poor. Du bois went to a school where racism was at a high against the individuals from Irish backgrounds than the Black people, he was a bright student, as he started publishing his writings from high school and went on to become a correspondent at a newspaper dominated by the Blacks by the name of New York City's Globe. He completed his Bachelors in 1891, from the Fisk University in Tennessee, and completed his B.A in 1891from Harvard University, where he initially felt the double consciousness phenomenon. Fisk University was an all-black institution where he could relate himself with their issue and grievances against the suppression, he considered himself as the son of Africa, which portrayed in his published writings. Whereas he experienced a complete different culture at Harvard, which was full of European & Western values that led him to write his thesis “The Suppression of African Slave-Trade to America” within the tenure (1638 till 1870). Du bois went on to address the discrimination of color within and outside America.

Discussion

Du Bois's worldwide acknowledgment with regard to his fresh & persistent say in United States ethnic policies owing to a minor assortment of big compositions that came out in 1903 as Souls of Black Folk. This collection encompasses Du Bois's sophisticated depiction of double-consciousness (or, “twoness”) notion that today encompasses societal & ethnic philosophies along with communal mindset: “One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two personalities, two belligerent standards in single shady figure, whose determined power unaided saves it from being torn apart” (Du Bois 1903:3). His philosophy carried the distinctive societal home of Blacks within the American way of living as a successor similarly to African & European Movements. W.E.B Du Bois has not been just a culturist. The dual consciousness theory in Personalities creates no logic apart from its final words of crying: “dual belligerent models in single dark body, whose determined power unaided saves it from being torn apart” (Du Bois 1903:3). This was exposed to the devastating influences of exploitation at tough effort for ...