SOCY 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: W. E. B. Du Bois, Double Consciousness, Death Drive
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W. e. b du bois: the souls of black folk (1903) An experience that cannot be reduced to a scientific or biological category: links american construction of class and race to globalization and the colonial world system. Colonialism: policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country occupying it with settlers and exploiting it economically: the color line: used to justify economic exploitation at a global scale. Political choice to use writing style/subject to discuss his history/struggle chronologically: race as an experience: shapes subjectivity. An experience that produces a brutalized, dehumanized subjectivity. An experience of living beyond the veil . Legacy of slavery creates this subjectivity continues through people living/shaped by this system persists and transcends freed status: the veil : metaphor for the color line. Has transparency to see onto the other side and other people"s perception of you. Separates black people from opportunity/ full humanity.
