Question

“The Souls of White Folk” is an essay from Du Bois’s 1920 collection Darkwater, a follow up to The Souls of Black Folk. What does Du Bois use to support the thesis statement?

Answer 1

• His dialectical approach to white supremacy accents its interconnections with other
  systems of oppression because in his critical socio-theoretical framework racism is one of several "very modern" intersecting hegemonic variables. But, it is white supremacy's globality, the fact that it is a racist global system or "racial polity.
• In his critique of the global aspects of white supremacy, Du Bois engaged its origins and evolution, locating its genesis, uniqueness and ubiquitousness in European imperial global expansion, domination, and colonization. Du Bois's critique of white supremacy then, registers as not only a radical criticism of an increasingly illusive and nebulous racism, but an affirmation of black humanity and an epochspanning assertion of Africana and other oppressed peoples' inherent right to human and civil rights.