W.E.B. Du Bois, “The souls of White folk” (1920)
Martin-Breteau, Nicolas
W.E.B. Du Bois, “The souls of White folk” (1920) - 2022.
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Published in 1920, following a decade of iterations, “The souls of White folk” is one of W.E.B. Du Bois’s major essays, as it refines the theoretical insights that had brought him fame in The souls of Black folk (1903). Deploying an incisive and subversive analysis, Du Bois sheds an enlightening understanding of his era. As an historical explanation of colonial imperialism and the First World War, a political call for Black pride and Pan-Africanism, and an epistemological articulation of minority clairvoyance and whiteness, “The souls of White folk” radically deconstructs White supremacy as a form of power based on race.
W.E.B. Du Bois, “The souls of White folk” (1920) - 2022.
50
Published in 1920, following a decade of iterations, “The souls of White folk” is one of W.E.B. Du Bois’s major essays, as it refines the theoretical insights that had brought him fame in The souls of Black folk (1903). Deploying an incisive and subversive analysis, Du Bois sheds an enlightening understanding of his era. As an historical explanation of colonial imperialism and the First World War, a political call for Black pride and Pan-Africanism, and an epistemological articulation of minority clairvoyance and whiteness, “The souls of White folk” radically deconstructs White supremacy as a form of power based on race.
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