Summary Of Souls Of Black Folks By W. E. B. Dubois

In W.E.B. Dubois’ Souls of Black Folks in there is much written concerning the social position of African Americans in America and what that means from an internal perspective in chapter Of Our Spiritual Strivings. This piece was written in 1903, which would’ve placed Dubois in the era of Jim Crow law in the U.S. ;thus making it that this work was written in order to not only encourage African Americans, but also inform those who were ignorant to the African American experience. The primary point of Dubois in this chapter is that those considered White and those that are African American live in entirely different worlds due to the hierarchy imposition of race, education, and class in the American society. Due to the existence among the majority
In this source, Dubois states that the African American figure is torn between the two worlds they exist which leads to people the following of false gods and false means of salvation. As dubois say the only way to destroy it is to confront the notion its existence. Consequently, I’ve turned my narrative work into putting them in confrontational contexts to get a better process of the thought process behind it. i tend to reveal what is to similar reason DuBois wrote the Souls of Black Folks in order to exhibit the reality from my own experience of what that phenomenon looks like on visual scale. Further, upon researching this source the question of where does it go from there or what happens after? Upon reading this, i believe my work will be influence my creative choices by somehow achieving shattering honesty regarding identity and it politics as well as choosing what is to be revealed and what is left to the spectator to figure