Sociologist of the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois
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An American sociologist, historian and civil rights leader who described double consciousness, helped found the NAACP, and spent his last years in Ghana.
Key work: The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Double consciousness is seeing yourself through others’ eyes.
Careful counting can show truths that power would hide.
Education should lift a whole people.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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