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Double-Consciousness In The Twentieth Century

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America is a country which has struggled with its checkered past of freedom. Trampling, negotiating, and conquering are all hallmark traits that have been soaked into its history. In the early times of America the Native Americans were the first to feel the its scorn and all its unforeseen complexities. Bludgeoned, finessed, and manipulated into submission the Native Americans were the first to feel the movements of what would soon be modern day America. Soon came the dawn of the 17th century, when America fully immersed itself in the forest of the slave trade industry which of course came with all its fruits and flies. Given the all the blood that has been soaked into Americas history, many have defined it and related their views and beliefs in various ways from music, art, and protests, to bombings …show more content…

Through the insight he provided in The Souls of Black Folk he was able to articulate "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line" and concepts of life behind the veil of race and the resulting "double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one 's self through the eyes of others". This double-consciousness is an important concept and almost referred to as a skill. Du Bois uses this concept to show how those should be aware of how they appear in the eyes of other and how they’re seeing themselves in the others eyes. America in his eyes is huge. It needs many individuals work on various parts and in various ways. From his perspective he was approaching America to improve the quality of life for African Americans through a gradual process of creating more opportunities for success. He developed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for that exact purpose by assisting individuals in succeeding and pointing out injustices within laws and perceptions he was doing his best to improve America and his tarnished view of it riddled with seemingly endless

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