Category: Double Consciousness

Essay on Du Boi’s Notion of Double Consciousness Du Boi’s notion of Double Consciousness and why it was so transformative to social theory. Du Bois was an American sociologist, activist, and author. He was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and graduated from Fisk University in Nashville and was also the first black American…

Double Consciousness in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Fight Club Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the main character in ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by British writer Robert Stevenson. Jekyll used the secret medicine developed by himself to separate the evil in his human nature.…

The Souls of Black Folk’: An Analysis of Double Consciousness At the heart of W.E.B. DuBoiss concept of double consciousness lies Saussures structuralism. At one point in time, society decided that a person with light skin would be called a white person, therefore giving the color of someones skin a sign, white, thus the signifying…