Booker T. believed that if Blacks formed a strong work force and became essential to the Southern economy, that whites would have no choice but to give equal rights and equal respect to them. W.E.B. DuBois on the other hand believed that Blacks should fight for voting rights and from there make changes via politics. Another way these two varied is in the way they hoped to promote change. While Booker T. hoped to create change by African Americans assimilating into white society, and becoming a vital part of their world, DuBois wanted Blacks to virtually push their way into society.
Industrial Revolution Essay The cotton gin was a major impact on America. It impacted America by Southern planters beginning to plant more cotton. This made it so in 1793 10,000 bales of cotton were produced. Each was 500 pounds. Cotton was needed around the world because of the invention of the spinning machine.
Because society forcing the African American to choose, we are forced to question our worth. In some instances African American’s try to disguise who they are as a race in order to receive something that they are due as a human being; fair treatment. Du Bois encourages us to be proud of both sides of our consciousness, that it is possible to live inside and outside of the veil. We should embrace our distinct cultural identity and it must be acknowledged, respected and enabled to flourish. We don’t want to eliminate white American culture nor Negro culture in America, but to fuse the two into a genuine new element.
In the 1800s, the African American population was skyrocketing. As the United States expanded and conquered more land, more slaves were needed and this was good news for the plantation owners. As the United States expanded, landowners demanded more slaves to cultivate the developing agricultural economy in the West. Inter-slave mating, therefore, became the standard for labor replacement and profit maximization. With the extra increase in slaves, they had the choice of using the extra labor force or selling slaves to other land owners.
Thomas Jefferson’s ideology of a thriving Republic was that in order for the country to be successful and complete, all the Americans had to share the same values and beliefs. Thomas Jefferson felt that the Blacks and Indians were problematic in the success of a Republic because of their different culture, values, and beliefs. This is what I found to be the main purpose of the secondary source of Hollitz book, “Within the Bowels of the Republic” by Takaki. How can a Republic thrive if there are different races and cultures mixed within a nation without a sense of accepting the American customs and believe? This is the issue that mostly bothered Jefferson, since he wanted the creation of a perfect society.
Washington vs. Dubois Booker T. Washington would argue that Whites had every right to leave when they felt that their way of life was threatened. Furthermore, he would probably chastise those African Americans who would "dare" to try and move up and out of their societal station. Washington believed in a segregated world, where the different races, white and black, would coexist as separate, and eventually, equal. He was born a slave, and grew up with a slave mentality. To him, emancipation and the freedom of blacks- who now have some sense of control over their lives- was a milestone.
DuBois, describing the ideas of B.T.Washington, doesn’t see the reality, because he believes that the problem of accepting African Americans by the society is a problem of the whole nation, and that the whole nation should make an effort for equality. His main idea is that accepting African Americans in the socity as citizens with civil rights is a business of both sides: those who accept and those who are being accepted: “On the whole the distinct impression left by Mr Washington’s propaganda is that his future depends on his own efforts“. W.E.B. DuBois critisizes Washington, but he doesn’t count the fact that not all the social groups can realize that African Americans are not submitted anymore and that they have full civil rights now. While Mr Washington tells thst the success of African Americans depends on their own efforts, W.E.B.
In social scope he had a big influence on opinions and life discernment of black population disseminating philosophies of equivalence and skillful labor. Washington accepted a distinct and unequal life for black people, but acknowledged black power, self-empowerment, and common
Describes how African Americans need to make change to what they were born into, “You were born where you were born… you were …You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity” 2. African Americans can make a change if we unite, “If we- and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others- do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world” III. Focuses on troubles of lower class citizens A. The world is victimizing the poor –“Fifth Avenue Uptown” 1.
immigration history is known as “New Immigration.” This is around 1840 to the 1900’s. This is also known as the industrial age. These new settlers came from southern and eastern Europe. Immigrants came to America during these eras mostly for economic opportunities. As the United States saw unprecedented industrial growth following the Civil War an unprecedented demand for labor, mostly cheap and unskilled, also grew.