St. Boniface Church in Frankfurt, Germany, consecrated in 1926. Designed by Martin Weber, it drew both praise and criticism for the novelty of its expressionist architecture. The concept of double consciousness, developed by the African American scholar W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), has become influential in modern social thought. Du Bois described …
The origin of the term “double consciousness”
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was an African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and public intellectual. He was a pioneering advocate for racial justice and one of the principal architects of the early National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His concept of “double consciousness” transformed the study of race, identity, and American …
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