Du Bois was way ahead of the game when he wrote this book in 1903. It's one of the first texts by an ethnic minority theorist explaining the experience African Americans.
- Is Du Bois's notion of "double-consciousness" only applicable to African Americans? Or can it be extended to include other ethnic minority groups such as Latino/as or Asian Americans? Is "double-consciousness" applicable to ethnic groups that are not racial minorities—for instance, Irish Americans?
- Du Bois says in The Souls of Black Folk that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." What does he mean by this statement? Do you agree or disagree?