This module focuses on racism as a political ideology, its roots, origins, and main aspects of its functioning in daily life.

READ – W.E.B. DuBois, excerpt on”Double Consciousness and the Veil”.

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Study questions – to be handed in class

NOTE: study questions answers should be typed and submitted in class.

DUE DATE: Monday, October 7th, in class.

  1. How does DuBois describe his first encounter with racism?
  2. He writes: “Then it dawned upon me … that I was different from the others…, in heart and life and longing, … shut out from their world by a vast veil.”  What is the Veil a reference to?
  3. According to you, explain what “self-consciousness” and “double-consciousness” mean. Give examples.
  4. Could there be a relationship between the veil, and double consciousness? HINT: think about the meaning of this sentence: “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others.”…