SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: African-American Culture, Eurocentrism
25 Jun 2020
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Most social theory historically created by people from privileged social locations (white, male, western, wealthy) Not just the content of the book, but the style, makes it unique. A focus on subjectivity, lived experience, the spiritual side of african american culture and suffering. A great divide between white and black americans experience of social reality. I step within the veil, raising it that you may view faintly its deeper recesses, - the meaning of its religion . Important historical context of the souls of black folk: Used to describe the black american experience. Dubois uses the metaphor of the veil to describe three interrelated aspects of the experience of the color line : suggestive of the literal darker skin of african americans. That which physically demarcates them for separation and exclusion: the seeming inability of whites to see blacks as true american citizens, the inability of african americans to see themselves outside the standards, preferences, and prejudices of white americans.
