In his foundational 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk, the sociologist and historian W.E.B. Du Bois described what he called the double consciousness of Black Americans. In a well-organized paper of about 4 pages, define Du Boiss theory of double consciousness and discuss how one of the stories below represents this concept. What is double consciousness and how is this concept present in one of the short stories below? How does the story help us understand Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness?
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Comet
James Baldwin, This Morning, This Evening, So Soon
