![]() ![]() Refuting the scientific definition of race, he suggests that what unifies nonwhites is not a common genetics but the social heritage of slavery and discrimination. Du Bois presents race as a social construct and not as a biological certainty. The second section of Dusk of Dawn treats the history of the concept of race in America and its effect on both African Americans and whites. ![]() Washington, whose promotion of the industrial education of African Americans and of white patronage differed from Du Bois's vision of the “Talented Tenth” of African Americans who would become the leaders of their own community. Marking the transition between Du Bois's personal autobiography and his sociological analysis is his explanation of his ideological disagreements with his literary and historical forefather Booker T. He chronicles his life from his New England childhood in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to his attendance at Fisk University where he embraced his African American identity, to his graduation from Harvard University, and, finally, to his study and travel in Germany. Like other African American life-writers, Du Bois shapes the story of his growing manhood around his attainment of education. ![]() The first four chapters relate personal data about the author. That is, Du Bois subordinates his personal chronicle to the collective sociopolitical goal of exposing America's history of racism.Ĭomprising nine chapters, the work may be divided into three sections. As Du Bois cautions in his preface, Dusk of Dawn is “the autobiography of a concept of race”, and not “mere autobiography”. A generic mix of autobiography and sociological commentary, Dusk of Dawn seeks to reclaim the social and historical identities of early twentieth-century African Americans rather than to narrate and create the life of a singular self. Du Bois that are considered autobiographical. Published in 1940, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept is the second of four works by W. ![]()
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