The Theoretical Foundations of Criminology by Jayne Mooney

Author:Jayne Mooney [Mooney, Jayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780131960107
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-12-18T00:00:00+00:00

Du Bois’s experiences of exclusion as a child and an adult11 led him to stress the need for a separate Black social development, ‘a form of biculturalism within “one Nation” ’ (1897; Thomson, 2010, p. 283).

In 1903, in his seminal essay The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois famously wrote that ‘the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line’ (1965 ed, p. 221). Yet the ‘problem of the color line’ for Du Bois was not just confined to ‘nine millions [sic] Americans and settled when their rights and opportunities are assured’, for ‘a glance over the world at the dawn of the new century will convince us that this is but the beginning of the problem – that the color-line belts the world and the social problem of the twentieth century is to be the relation of the civilized world to the dark races of mankind’ (2014 ed, pp. 111–112). While each racial group’s experience will have historically specific characteristics, Du Bois pointed out that the ‘color-line’ manifested itself in numerous ways across the world, whether between ‘the brown Turanians of India’ and their ‘yellow conquerors’ (ibid, p. 113) or the ‘most curious and complicated race conflict between Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Jews, and Poles’ (Du Bois ibid, p. 119). Thus, the ‘problem of the color line’ can also be seen as relating to the situation of the Southern Italians (as discussed in Chapter 3), the anti-Semitism of Durkheim’s France and the subsequent rise of Nazi Germany.12 The implications of the ‘color line’ were clearly articulated throughout Du Bois’s many writings. In terms of the contemporary relevance of the ‘color-line’ in the United States, Vann R. Newkirk II noted in the new introduction to the 2017 edition of The Souls of Black Folk that ‘from Barack Obama’s presidency to the rise of Black Lives Matter to Donald Trump’s election amid a furor over voting rights, white nationalism, and racism, the color line is still the country’s core subject’.

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