Exam 7: Web Du Bois

Summarize the main points from Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk. Also include the three reasons as outlined by the authors as to why this particular piece is notable.

Compare and contrast Du Bois's double consciousness to Simmel's notion of the stranger.

The Souls of White Folk differs from The Souls of Black Folk in that its tone can be considered more

The Soul of White Folks proved Whites experience a double consciousness.

The Philadelphia Negro is the first major sociological study of an African American community ever published in the United States.

When Du Bois asks "why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?" he is reflecting on the ________ aspects of race and racism.

For Du Bois, when did race become central to world history?

The conclusion of The Philadelphia Negro squarely places the blame on the structure of white society for all the problems of the residents of the Seventh Ward.

Compare and contrast Du Bois's theory of the oppression of black Americans with Gilman's theory of the oppression of women. What are some of the similarities (if any) and differences (if any) between these two perspectives?

Which of Du Bois's work reverses the gaze of racial domination?

In The Philadelphia Negro, Du Bois states which of the following as the "vastest of the Negro problems"?

Discuss how well you feel Du Bois's ideas have translated into contemporary times. Do you feel he could still write his works today and they would still be relevant? If so, how?

Du Bois was primarily concerned with the nature and intersection of race and class, however during the last twenty-three years of his long life, he wrote provocatively on

Du Bois believed the responsibility of the Talented Tenth was what?

Du Bois was primarily concerned with the nature and intersection of

Du Bois used a multidimensional approach to race and class.

Which of the following methods did Du Bois not employ when conducting his research for The Philadelphia Negro?

Du Bois states which of the following as the reason for why he was commissioned to perform his study in the Seventh Ward?

In The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois "stepped within the _______, raising it that you may view faintly its deeper recesses…"

Du Bois argues in The Souls of White Folk that while African Americans possess a double-consciousness, whites have