W.E.B DuBois - The Souls Of Black Folk

DuBois tried to prove the argument between appearance and essence. He felt that appearane needed to be looked past in the black community to find the essence of each person. Although he believed in his society that both appearance and essence need to exist together for people to survive. He also felt there were problems in the relationship with the individual and society, and with idealism and materialism. DuBois also brought up the dialectic saying ideas interact with each other and that each idea, even when contradicting, must be thought as working together instead of thought about alone. Another idea dialectic brings together is for things to change into their opposite. DuBois also gave the idea of the late industrial society, he believed that there is a fusion between politics and economics, saying that in institutions slowly turn into both a mix of influences of politics and economics. He also felt that at this time, the condition of race relation laws like resagination were contributing to the fact that the color barrier was gaining depth and keeping the black and white communities appart. He felt that in the late industrial society, superficiality became a real problem because people were extremely concerened with the appearance of the life instead of the essence of each person. In his book he also proved that in the south racial barriers were gaining strength because the black people down south were taking jobs from the white because they would take lower pay. Just as the southerners would take jobs from the northerners because they would be ok with taking lower pay as the blacks do in the south.