Creative Review of The Souls of Black Folk

Abstract

After reading W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, students produce an original creative product analyzing the text. Students will describe the dual insights of the concept of double consciousness and examine one specific social, political, cultural, and/or economic arrangement that leads to racial inequality. Creative products, such as...

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Details

Subject Area(s):

Race, Class and Gender, Racial and Ethnic Relations, Theory

Resource Type(s):

Assignment, Essay

Class Level(s):

College 300

Class Size(s):

Medium, Small

Usage Notes

See attached Usage Notes.

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. Identify social, cultural, political, and/or economic mechanisms that create and/or maintain racial inequalities Du Bois examined in The Souls of Black Folk.
   
   
2. Describe the dual insights of the concept of double consciousness as Du Bois theorized in The Souls of Black Folk.

Goal Assessment(s):

1. Effectively communicates how one specific mechanism creates and/or maintains racial inequality in their original creative review of The Souls of Black Folk.
2. Effectively communicates how the concept of double consciousness provides insight into the suffering and striving within the Veil in their original creative review of The Souls of Black Folk.