Discuss Du Bois’s use of the term “clairvoyance” in The Souls of White Folk. Be sure to also define and discuss the consciousness of whites as stated by Du Bois. Further, show how the concepts of democracy and religion play into this discussion.
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Du Bois suggests that, unbeknownst to whites, African Americans can see what it means to be white. Blacks’ “clairvoyance” comes from their servile position. As servants in one form or another, blacks are exposed to the intimate details of whites’ lives, hence they see whites as they really are. Most important, what blacks see is that whites typically practice the very opposite of what they preach. Du Bois condemns whites not only for their hypocrisy, but also for their delusion. Thus, Du Bois declares white Christianity “a miserable failure” because the number of whites who actually practice “the democracy and unselfishness of Jesus Christ” is so small as to be farcical.
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