The Differences Between Booker T. Washington And W. E. B. Du Bois
During our assigned weekly reading we read several primary sources relating towards how the Black community will advance and on which approach is best to uplift their people. After reviewing these documents, I notice the two opposing views between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois and the advantages/ disadvantages towards resistance and subserviences. In the Atlantic Compromise, Booker T. Washington essentially agreed that Southern blacks would not upset the social order of the South and would accept their position as lower class citizen as long as their basic education and their legal rights were be guaranteed. I do not agree with his speech, however considering who his audience is( elite white Southern men) and that he was looking for
funding for the Tuskegee Institute he was not in the position to anger them. On the other hand W.E.B. Du Bois challenges Washington's accommodationist method towards race relations. I agree on Du Bois's point that accommodation will hurt Black American's in their long-term progression. He also states that this mentality has assisted in their people's loss of civil status, voting, and higher education. Likewise, I agree that the right to vote and higher education is necessary for African American advancement. On the other hand, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall brought light to the other issues preventing the race's progress, in "The Mind That Burns In Each Body" she addresses the vast amount of racial violence perpetrated on African Americans. She points out how they were able to reinforce white dominance and that it was an "important tool of psychological intimidation aimed at blacks as a group ". They were able to control black farmers with a way of enforcing labor contracts and for their own demented personal amusement. I was shocked to find out that until World War I the average number of lynchings never fell below two or three a week. She also addresses the image projected onto the black female's sexuality and that she was either passionless or always sexually available. Rape was their way to express male sexual attitudes in a racist patriarchal society.
funding for the Tuskegee Institute he was not in the position to anger them. On the other hand W.E.B. Du Bois challenges Washington's accommodationist method towards race relations. I agree on Du Bois's point that accommodation will hurt Black American's in their long-term progression. He also states that this mentality has assisted in their people's loss of civil status, voting, and higher education. Likewise, I agree that the right to vote and higher education is necessary for African American advancement. On the other hand, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall brought light to the other issues preventing the race's progress, in "The Mind That Burns In Each Body" she addresses the vast amount of racial violence perpetrated on African Americans. She points out how they were able to reinforce white dominance and that it was an "important tool of psychological intimidation aimed at blacks as a group ". They were able to control black farmers with a way of enforcing labor contracts and for their own demented personal amusement. I was shocked to find out that until World War I the average number of lynchings never fell below two or three a week. She also addresses the image projected onto the black female's sexuality and that she was either passionless or always sexually available. Rape was their way to express male sexual attitudes in a racist patriarchal society.