W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls, and Black Double Consciousness

by Wd Wright, Regine Bence (Editor)

Overview

Contrary to the usual contention that Du Bois's "double consciousness" is a literary trope my non-fiction work shows for the first time that Du Bois, functioning as a scientific sociologist, with extensive knowledge of cognitive psychology, discovered a distinctive historical form of cognition among Blacks that had a "double consciousness" feature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798881179014
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	04/26/2024
Pages:	562
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

W.D. Wright is a professor emeritus of history at Southern Connecticut State University, and the author of: The American Three-Party System: Hidden in Plain Sight, Crisis of the Black Intellectual, Black History and Black Identity: A Call for a New Historiography, Critical Reflections on Black History, Black Intellectuals, Black Cognition, and a Black Aesthetic, Racism Matters, Historians and Slavery: A Critical Analysis of Perspectives and Irony in American Slavery and Other Recent Works. Wright lives in Connecticut.