TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards a discursive theory of racial identity
T2 - The souls of black folk as a response to nineteenth-century biological determinism
AU - Wilson, Kirtley Hasketh
PY - 1999/6/1
Y1 - 1999/6/1
N2 - This essay interprets W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk as a response to nineteenth-century racial science and the ideology of biological determinism. It argues that Souls inverts the racist claims of nineteenth-century science through direct analysis, a style that combines art and reason and makes a methodological shift from studying what Black is to studying what being Black means. Du Bois's critical practice in The Souls of Black Folk moved scholarship along with two conceptual innovations-the veil of race and double consciousness toward a discursive theory of race that foreshadowed cultural/minority studies and critical race theory.
AB - This essay interprets W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk as a response to nineteenth-century racial science and the ideology of biological determinism. It argues that Souls inverts the racist claims of nineteenth-century science through direct analysis, a style that combines art and reason and makes a methodological shift from studying what Black is to studying what being Black means. Du Bois's critical practice in The Souls of Black Folk moved scholarship along with two conceptual innovations-the veil of race and double consciousness toward a discursive theory of race that foreshadowed cultural/minority studies and critical race theory.
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U2 - 10.1080/10570319909374636
DO - 10.1080/10570319909374636
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033422533
VL - 63
SP - 193
EP - 215
JO - Western Journal of Communication
JF - Western Journal of Communication
SN - 1057-0314
IS - 2
ER -