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Du Bois and Diasporic Identity: The Veil and the Unveiling Project
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Positioning Du Bois's arguments in The Souls of Black Folk (1903) within social theory enhances our understanding of the phenomenological dimensions of racial oppression and of how oppressed groups build on members' differences, as well as on what they share, to construct a cosmopolitan and richly textured community. Du Bois wrote Souls just at the beginning of the Great Migration but indicated that geographical dispersion would deepen racial solidarity, enhance the meaningfulness of community, and emancipate individual group members through participation in mainstream society while maintaining their black identity. Du Bois's writings have powerful implications for understanding how to promote racial justice, and contemporary readers might consider that they have implications for social justice more generally. An analysis of black newspapers that were published during the period of 1900 to 1935 illustrates how Du Bois's conceptions were woven into discourse and everyday practices.
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“This situation allows them to, at least partially, suspend the optics of the veil and see other possibilities for organizing the world”
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“Whereas the racialized is invisible for the racializing, the former can develop an understanding of the latter, one that is less encumbered than the one that the racializing subject has of himself”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Blau, J. R., & Brown, E. S.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Venue
- Sociological Theory
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2001-07
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 219-233
- ISSN
- 0735-2751 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9558
- OpenAlex
- W2085466407
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 4.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Sociological Theory (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Keywords
- W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, diasporic identity, racial oppression, racial solidarity, Great Migration, geographic dispersion, Black identity, African American newspapers, racial justice, social justice, community, cosmopolitanism, social theory
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