DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS

Double Consciousness

Double Consciousness

Introduction

The most important work of Du Bois, a Souls of Black Folk, was published in 1903, and reflects an important new direction of his thought. It is a job for which he is most famous work which he stated, famous as "the problem of a twentieth century is a problem of a color line" (Ames, V). About this work Du Bois's biographer, wrote: "This is one of these events epochally divide history into a before and after" (Lewis, Biography 277) What makes this work so important, a culture is. how he speaks with passion and strong spirit of African-Americans, emphasizing their humanity and a strength across a centuries of a worst form of bullying. Moreover, Du Bois in this book has dared to challenge a intellectually a most famous African American of a day, Booker T. Washington, and to adopt a principle against Washington's belief that only education would lead to industrial equality. Du Bois argued instead Afro-Americans should have a opportunity to reach more sophisticated, higher education and so they can share a goods of civilization as well as a applicant was able to teach other African Americans in turn (one try not to be left entirely white).

Life and work

Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 23 February 1868. He was a happy childhood at first unaware of a biases of race, until one day, as he recorded Souls of Black Folk, a student in his class refused to exchange greeting cards with him just because he is black (soul, 2) . This experience makes Du Bois felt a first time it is different, in that it is both within a white world (because he lived in) and out of it (because it is perceived by a white world a prism of racial bias). Throughout his life after that event, Du Bois was always felt, as he says, he was both an American and an African, but never in an African-American, with its own unique identification consistent American world. "One ever feels his two-ness," he explains (Soul, 2).

Du Bois refused to be depressed by his new creation, and in fact, made his life's work to fight against race and prejudice to find a way to achieve consistency of personality for blacks in America. Du Bois, it turns out, is a right person for a job, as he was in his character to emerge as a matter of course. It is a bold, brave youth, ready to fight for him and his work. All his life, Du Bois's self-confident without being aggressive, assuming, without hesitation, a right to equality of all people.

It was a first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard. At Harvard, he studied a philosophy of William James, George Santayana, Josiah Royce and. Du Bois learned much from his teacher of philosophy, especially James, but he came to reject a academic philosophy, which refers to her as "beautiful but sterile" (Lewis, Biography ...