Sociology essay
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web_dubois_fa2015.pptxW.E.B. DuBois
Representation and consciousness
How have African Americans been represented?
This postcard, published circa 1908, shows a white minstrel team. While both are wearing wigs, the man on the left is in blackface and drag.
Bert Williams was the only black member of the Ziegfeld Follies when he joined them in 1910. Shown here in blackface, he was the highest-paid African-American entertainer of his day.
Until the 1950s
Hattie McDaniel
Contemporary representations of race
Double consciousness
Double consciousness
Black identity
White-dominated society
African culture
Internal conflict
What does it mean to be America?
What does it mean to be Black?
Accept ideology of racial supremacy
Spiritual consciousness
The concept of race
Pursue “ideals of life”
Ancestry
Language and traditions
History
The root of prejudice
Causes
Poverty
Ignorance
Solution
Education of the public
Empirical research
slavery
History as ideology
What did you learn about African Americans in k-12 history classes?
Do your own research…
Look for famous African Americans before 1960
Empirical research
Gather information on African American lifes
Find out the truth
Work to improve their lives
Looked at history of slavery
Looked at contemporary situation
Slavery destroyed the African family
Prejudice and discrimination hinder advancement
Social change
Findings (“The Philadelphia Negro”)
Prejudice
Limits to interactions between races
Qualified African Americans can’t get good jobs
African Americans are not respected
They accept menial jobs
The impracticality of segregation
Interracial marriages happen
Physical traits don’t differentiate race anyway
Blacks have progressed after slavery
No racial purity
Education, employment, culture
There is no biological foundation for race
World economy based on the interaction of many races
Segregation goes against world trends
What do we need to achieve racial equality?
Voting rights
Social reforms
Education (formal and informal)
White supremacy as a system of global exploitation
The logic of imperialism
Capitalism relies on exploitation to increase profits
Colonization of Africa to extract raw materials and cheap labor
Impoverishment of black nations and black folks
