Chapter 13: Race

Dubois & Race Conflict: Crash Course Sociology #7

This video discusses the significance of W.E.B Dubois' theory, shifting ideas on race, the concept of double-consciousness, and the modern day field of racial identity.  This video is useful for highlighting the social construction of race.

  1. How do physical markers come to be regarded as a race? 
  2. What is meant by double-consciousness? 
  3. What is meant by the argument that society now has racism without racists?