Summary Of Double Consciousness And The Veil Du Dubois

The subordinate group, in contrast has to follow the rules and standards. The women are in the subordinate group and have to obey the rule and law. Smith mentions the term “ bifurcation of consciousness”. Bifurcation of consciousness is the separation of two modes that exist in woman: the world that the women's actual experiences and the dominant’s viewpoint that she must obey to. A woman's perspective is discredited in the sociological claim to objectiveness because women see the world through the lens of man. Therefore, from Smith’s perspective a new form of sociology is needed. We should look at sociology through the standpoint of a woman. Smith emphasizes that “If sociology cannot avoid being situated, then sociology should take that
In the article Double Consciousness and The Veil, Du bois states that “ After the Egyptian and the Indian, the Greek and the Roma and the Teuton and Mongolian, the negro is short of seventh son, born with a veil and gifted with second-sight in this American world,- a world which yield him to no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world” ( 1903, p. 164). Moreover,women world is cover with the veil that shut her out from the rest of the world. Under the circumstance that human society are male dominant, the women’s worlds and experiences are being shaped within the language and character that men set up for her. As the result, woman fail to experiences the world like the way she wanted to. Furthermore, women are used to being told what to do and how to act that she become numb the fact that she need to fight for her right. Not many women decided to rebel against the rule. For African- American, they also being covered by the veil. Because of the veil, White aren’t be able to see them as American, they only seen Black as African. In that case, African American don’t have equal opportunity as Whites. In the First Pan- African Conference in London, DuBois (1900) argues that “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question is how far the differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair-will hereafter be made the basis of denying to half the world the right of sharing to their utmost ability the opportunities and privileges of modern civilization” In the twentieth century, skin colour became the basis of privilege. In addition, African American starts to see himself as what Whites has labeled them. Sadly, discrimination still happen today in