Essays on Web Dubois

In the seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk, WEB Du Bois discusses the concept of the “Veil” to express struggles of understanding identity and the ways in which blacks and whites view each other. Du Bois discovers the “Veil” as a child during an exchange at school on Valentine’s Day. A white girl from…

Alice Paul once said “When you put your hand to the plow, you can’t put it down until you get to the end of the row.” (Alive Paul Talks). The persistence displayed by her character would soon play a roll that would impact America until present day. Alice Paul was not the only reformer to…

Before Du Bios really emphasize on his discussion of double consciousness, he addresses two important elements that are notably crucial for his novel. He talks about the veil, “Leaving, then, the white world, I have stepped within the veil, raising it that you may view faintly its deeper recesses, — the meaning of its religion,…

During the time of reconstruction in the south, African Americans had a very vague idea of what good the world had to offer them. This is demonstrated throughout W.E.B Du Bois’s novel The Soul of Black Folk, where he seeks to further explain the hardships that African Americans had endured, whilst looking at it through…

In societies around the world, namely (and in this case) in the United States, the concept of race has been ingrained in the minds of the population throughout the decades in a negative connotation and as a defining characteristic of distinctive groupings of people. In W.E.B Du Bois’ “The Comet”, the seemingly apocryphal significance of…

Simone de Beauvoir and W.E.B. DuBois were existentialists whose ideas were reflected in their works The Second Sex and The Souls of Black Folk respectively. They wrote in response to the dominant theories surrounding the cause of and the answer to the discrimination faced by women and blacks. Both, sharing the existentialist mindset, believed neither…

Tourgee stated that the Reconstruction policy was a complete fail. He said in the attempt to unify the nation and the attempt to secure rights for the colored race was a fail. He believes that if the government would become more involved in this issue it would have a better chance of being solved. It…

Slavery was abolished in the United States when the thirteenth amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution in 1865. Then, in 1868 the fourteenth amendment was secured in order to affirm equal civil rights and citizenship to the freed individuals of this country; However, even in modern times, equality is still considered just a dream…

The philosophies of W.E.B. Dubois and Washington are more different than alike. Washington and Dubois both preach about the uprising of the American Negro, what is the American Negro, –an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being…

In W.E.B. DuBois essay, The White World, he believes that cultural superiority consists of four major things. These things are: Beauty and health of body,  Mental clearness and creative genius,  Spiritual goodness and receptivity, and  Social adaptability and constructiveness. In this essay I plan to show how the white majority hold many of these traits…