Double-Consciousness Double-consciousness is a major theme that courses through many African American literature works. Double-consciousness was a term made up by W.E.B. ... " (Double-Consciousness). ... Double-consciousness has a direct negative affect on identity of African American people. ... This idea directly contradicts the idea of double-consciousness. ...
According to an article by Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Globe, the average black person earning $60,000 or more per year lives in an area with double the poverty rate than an area that the average white person earning less than $30,000 resides. ... Racial isolation is often defined by a 90/10 rule representing that a block's population is made up of ninety percent like-raced residents and ten percent of another race. ...
"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...
