“A Most Disagreeable Mirror”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrie Balfour
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Du Bois

This chapter positions Baldwin in relation to W. E. B. Du Bois and also expands notions of consciousness to discuss Baldwin’s ability to reach across and beyond the color line. The essay draws on the Du Boisian notion of double consciousness in order to establish a sense of general race consciousness. In doing so, Lawrie Balfour, and in turn Baldwin, challenge the notion that white supremacy was extinguished with slavery. It is significant in establishing Baldwin’s simultaneous appreciation yet careful delineating of community.

On W.E.B. Du Bois, Double Consciousness, and Racialized Modernity. An Interview with José Itzigsohn

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
José Itzigsohn ◽  
Ștefan Baghiu ◽  
Vlad Pojoga
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Color Line ◽  
New York University ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
February Issue

The February issue of Transilvania journal hosts an interview with professor José Itzigsohn focusing on his activity within the field of sociology and his latest book with Karida L. Brown, on The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois. Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line (New York University Press, 2020). It delves into Du Boisian sociology, “double consciousness” and racialized modernity, alongside contemporary decolonial perspectives and new studies and researchers in the field.

W.E.B. Du Bois în studiile contemporane: conștiința dublă și modernitatea rasializată

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Ștefan Baghiu
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Decolonial Theory

This article outlines W.E.B. Du Bois’s general sociological theory and literary activity in connection to the recent study of Jose Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown, The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois. Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line. It describes the role of Double Consciousness and Racialized Modernity within postcolonial and decolonial theory and explains how postcolonial Romanian studies have engaged with postcolonial theory by avoiding these concepts.

scholarly journals Double Consciousness in the 21st Century: Du Boisian Theory and the Problem of Racialized Legal Status

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 345
Author(s):  
Tiffany Joseph ◽  
Tanya Golash-Boza
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Du Bois

In W.E.B. Du Bois’ Souls of Black Folk, he argued that the problem of the 20th century in the United States was the problem of the color line. Given that de facto and explicit racial discrimination persist, anti-immigrant rhetoric is intensifying, and legal status has become more salient, we argue Du Boisian theory remains relevant for understanding social and political cleavages in the 21st century United States. The intersection of race, ethnicity, and legal status or “racialized legal status” represents a new variation of Du Bois’ “color line,” due to how these statuses generate cumulative disadvantages and exclusion for citizens and immigrants of color, particularly the undocumented. We begin with a review of Du Bois’ double consciousness theory, highlighting the marginalization of African Americans. Next, we apply double consciousness to the 21st century U.S. context to empirically demonstrate parallels between 20th century African Americans and the marginalization faced today by people of color. We close with a discussion about how double consciousness enhances our understanding of citizenship and has also generated agency for people of color fighting for socio-political inclusion in the contemporary United States.

scholarly journals STATEMENT FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE W. E. B. DU BOIS INSTITUTE

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Louis Gates
Keyword(s):  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
The Past ◽  
Considerable Work ◽  
Public Policy Decisions

In 1903, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois famously predicted that the problem of the twentieth century would be the problem of the color line. Indeed, during the past century, matters of race were frequently the cause of intense conflict and the stimulus for public policy decisions not only in the United States, but throughout the world. The founding of the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race at the beginning of the twenty-first century acknowledges the continuing impact of Du Bois's prophecy, his pioneering role as one of the founders of the discipline of sociology in the American academy, and the considerable work that remains to be done as we confront the “problem” that Du Bois identified over a century ago.

scholarly journals DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS IN BELL HOOKS’ BONE BLACK

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Mzukisi J. Lento
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Du Bois

This article investigates the shifts in the concept of double consciousness as depicted in bell hooks’ Bone black (1996). According to Du Bois, the idea of ‘double consciousness’ refers to being both black and American. In Du Boisian understanding, double consciousness refers to a condition of being black and American in which ‘One ever feels his two-ness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings’ (Du Bois 1989, 5). bell hooks agrees with this view but she also revises the concept in order to take on board the fact that black women have other experiences in addition to double consciousness in America (Hooks 1996).

scholarly journals Resolving the problem of Algorithmic Dissonance: An unconventional solution for a sociotechnical problem

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiv Issar
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Feminist Theory ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Sociotechnical Imaginaries ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Structural Inequities ◽  
Sociocultural Systems

In this paper, I propose the concept of “algorithmic dissonance”, which characterizes the inconsistencies that emerge through the fissures that lie between algorithmic systems that utilize system identities, and sociocultural systems of knowledge that interact with them. A product of human-algorithm interaction, algorithmic dissonance builds upon the concepts of algorithmic discrimination and algorithmic awareness, offering greater clarity towards the comprehension of these sociotechnical entanglements. By employing Du Bois’ concept of “double consciousness” and black feminist theory, I argue that all algorithmic dissonance is racialized. Next, I advocate for the use of speculative methodologies and art for the creation of critically informative sociotechnical imaginaries that might serve a basis for the sociological critique and resolution of algorithmic dissonance. Algorithmic dissonance can be an effective check against structural inequities, and of interest to scholars and practitioners concerned with running “algorithm audits”.

scholarly journals Beyond the Psychological Wage: Du Bois on White Dominion

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella Myers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
The Universe

W.E.B. Du Bois’s reading of whiteness as a “public and psychological wage” is enormously influential. This essay examines another, lesser known facet of Du Bois’s account of racialized identity: his conceptualization of whiteness as dominion. In his 1920–1940 writings, “modern” whiteness appears as a proprietary orientation toward the planet in general and toward “darker peoples” in particular. This “title to the universe” is part of chattel slavery’s uneven afterlife, in which the historical fact of “propertized human life” endures as a racialized ethos of ownership. The essay examines how this “title” is expressed and reinforced in the twentieth century by the Jim Crow system of racial signs in the United States and by violent “colonial aggrandizement” worldwide. The analytic of white dominion, I argue, allows Du Bois to productively link phenomena often regarded as discrete, namely, domestic and global forms of white supremacy and practices of exploitation and dispossession. Ultimately, the entitlement Du Bois associates with whiteness is best understood as a pervasive, taken-for-granted horizon of perception, which facilitates the transaction of the “wage” but is not reducible to it.

Theorizing White Racial Trauma and its Remedies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Becky Thompson ◽  
Veronica T. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Racial Trauma ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
White Consciousness ◽  
Martin Luther King

In this paper we will be drawing upon historical work on race consciousness, contemporary work on trauma, and scholarship on activism and social change to offer a vision of what a critical white double consciousness might look like. We juxtapose this critical white consciousness with what Veronica Watson has termed a “white schizophrenic subjectivity” which has been explored by intellectuals like Du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr. Each of these writers called attention to a whiteness that works to maintain disconnection from people of color and disassociation from their own moral selves, a white schizophrenic subjectivity that prevented white folks from acknowledging or challenging racism while still continuing to think of themselves as moral and upstanding citizens of their communities and nation.

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