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This 3 page paper discusses W.E.B. DuBois’s concept of “double consciousness” and argues that it can still be applied to marginalized groups today. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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consciousness" as he expressed it in his work, The Souls of Black Folk, and argues that it can be applied to other marginalized groups, as well as blacks, today.
Discussion A number of sources have suggested recently that American blacks might be further toward equality if they had followed the politics of confrontation advocated by more radical leaders like
Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael than following the more accommodating path advocated by such leaders as Dr. Martin Luther King. But this should we/shouldnt we thinking actually goes much further
back, to a bitter dispute between DuBois and Booker T. Washington; at the time DuBois was writing, Washington was "the most powerful black man in ... America" (Hynes). Washington disliked
the idea of black activism, and argued that blacks should "temporarily forego political power, insistence on civil rights, and higher education of Negro youth. They should concentrate all their energies
on industrial education" (Hynes). DuBois on the other hand "believed in the higher education of a Talented Tenth who through their knowledge of modern culture could guide the American Negro
into a higher civilization" (Hynes). The idea was this tenth could teach another tenth, who would teach another tenth and so on. The result of the dispute between these two
men was Duboiss book; and although he did his best to refrain from attacking Washington, the enmity between the two continued (Hynes). It was in the first chapter of this
book that DuBois discussed his idea of "double consciousness," which he says is the odd way in which African-Americans are forced to view the world and themselves in relation to
it; they are not allowed an accurate picture, but see it through a sort of veil: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at ones
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