Du Bois

what does Du Bois ask at the start of ‘The Souls of Black Folk’, introducing the problem of double consciousness

how does it feel to be a problem

who talks about colourism and intraracism

banks

who looks at south asian colourism

jaison

what does jaison say colourism is an example of

internalized racism

how does double consciousness affect black people: they sees themselves through …

the eyes of others

even when slaves were granted physical freedom, what endured (D.C.)

psychological consequences

while Du Bois saw slavery as the cause of all strief, did he think emancipaiton fron slavery was enough

no

3 of Du Bois’ stages to freedom (not the only things needed but some of them)

emancipation, political power, education

whose vision of structural reforms did Du Bois reject because they accepted the alleged inferiority of the black man and didn’t demand social equality

booker t washington

what kind of explanations does Du Bois give for issues like rural black poverty, families breaking up, absent fathers in the black community etc compared to what traditional explanations

structural explanations rather than biological

who discusses the ways in which white people often present the problems black people face as inherent or biological

bonilla-silva

what does Du Bois see as shaping black people’s lives constantly, as well as the way white people see and treat black people

the veil

as well as material prosperity, what else did Du Bois think black people needed to strive towards

politics, truth, beauty, goodness

how did Du Bois argue progress was often made - can be criticised as being elitist

progress created by the exceptional advancing first

name for Du Bois’ conception of elite political leaders

the talented tenth

what did Du Bois think helped allow him to dwell above the veil

knowledge and education

what does the colour line describe

segregation between black and white population and structural inequality

what does Du Bois do with the collur line - where else does he apply it

globally

what are the white population blind to

the veil

how does Fanon similarly emphasise the psychological effects of racism - he says “a black man is …”

a black man is not a man

what zone does Fanon think the black man is in - idea of alienation, psychology

a zone of non-being

what does Fanon think using forces the colonized to adopt the colonizer’s model of thought

the colonizer’s language

like du Bois, what does Fanon say describing the intergenrational trauma of black communities after slavery

residues of psychic trauma

exampleof Fanon showing that the psychological is somewhat underpinned by the structural

labourers in south africa are racist because south africa is structurally racist

while du Bois sees education as a tool of emancipation, how does Fanon see education and who pointed this out

tool of colonialism, Kaziboni

what level does Fanon believe decolonisation should happen on - not political or economic but …

through violence

which black political writer focuses on south africa, as an activist there

steve biko

what did biko emphasise the need for (psychological)

strong grassroots black consciousness

what did Biko think being black was a matter of: not pigmentation but … (similar to Du Bois ideas on race)

mental attitude

example of a black student organisation at the time of Biko that he was invovled in and that fought to liberate the black man first from psychological oppression and second from physical oppression

SASO

why did Biko think there could never be any successful rapport between black and white workers

white workers still benefit off of the system of discrimination

instead of directing anger at the governing party in South Africa, who did Biko think people should direct their rage at

the whole power structure

who argues that black people cannot really self-reflect upon existential realities because self-conscious reflection requires being able to look at oneself positively

makgoba

whose thinking did Du Bois use, but not uncritically, to think about capitalism and class

marx

what did Du Bois see as structuring elements of historical capitalism

racism and colonialism

who talks about the ways Du Bois apploes the colour line globally and sees the intersection of race and class

itzigsohn and Brown

what does the global colour line shape (psychological)

subjectivity of the self

Du Bois thinks that capitalism as we know it would not have emerged without ….

slavery

how does du bois regard state and global power

racialized class power

what did Du Bois say about postcolonialism, in many ways predicted situation today

weight of debt and political limits of postcolonial countries

the colour line not only articulated the subjectivities of people of colour but …

those socially categorised as white

what was central to the slave based economy

class

how did white labour in the north come to regard black enslaved people

competitors

what do the white poor identify with, according to Du Bois

whiteness rather than with the enslaved

what does Du Bois see as next to the problem of the colour line

the uplift of women

who criticised du bois for his masculinist worldivew

joy james

example of things du bois noted as structurally caused by the fact that black women have always worked

economic independence, families breaking up, illegitimate children slowly decreasing

example of blakc female theorists that du bois ignored, who would have helped imrpvoe his theory

ann julia cooper, ida b wells

how can we decribe du bois theoretical approach

racialized modernity

how does du bois work move between specific and universal

deep embodied engagement with a specific society to a universal claim about a global colour line

what was the first empirical sociological study of a specific group within the US, carried out by du bois, and what school of thought did it anticipate

the philadelphia negro, chicago school of thought

du bois argued that the hierarchy among african americans occurred in a wider framework of their general separation from white residents, such that a position of advantage amogn that group was at a relative disadvantage compared to …

an equivalent position among whites

whose theory have some argued Du Bois’ sense of two ness and double consciousness echo

hegel’s master slave relation

rather than hegel,’s whose idea of what is a better way to frame double consciousness

george herbert mead’s social self

why does marx’ proleteriat revolution not really work in the case of black african americans: the injustice is being committed by a

majority against a minority

how does du bois conceptualise democracy, meaning that white workers failure to countenance equality of treatment with black workers led to a failure of general emancipation

emancipation of labour

to address the colour line in the US, what has to be solved

the global colour line

who talks about the ways in which white people have presented themselveds as victims of things like the civil rights movement, and claim we are in a post-racist era

kristen lavelle

what is one key way Lavelle says whiteness has taken on meaning in recent decades, downplaying racial discriination

notion of contemporary post-racial era

what is the colour line arguably blind to

nuances like colourism

example of a country that suffers from racism, but where applying the colour line might be more difficult

brazil

who looks at post-racial america and argues that ‘new racism’ has replaced colour blind segregation, and that clolour-blind racism

bonilla-silva

what does bonilla-silva think produces race

racism

in terms of what is segregation almost as pronounced as the past (BONILLA-SILVA)

housing

does Bonilla silva think the election of Obama signalled a change or deepened new racism

deepened new racism

is the socioeconomic status of black americans better or wrse than pre Obama

worse

what was Obama’s approach to economic help, for example: a good economy will automatically help … (BONILLA SILVA)

everyone

which of Du Bois’ ideas can Obama’s lack of help for black people challenge

the talented tenth