Double consciousness

Section 2: Question 5 The United States of America, since its inception, has been a “melting pot” of different nationalities. While the term melting pot sounds friendly, this is not the case in reality. Many times cultures collide due their differences in ideology, culture, and geographical proximity. Such culture clashes have marked the history of the United States. Race is usually thought of in the physical sense with difference in skin color, hair, facial features, and language. …

…of Black people. Dubois believes African Americans should come together and create a new set of answers to give to the world. Although the Negro race is dealing with the concept of racial identity in America, there has to be a solution that allows African Americans to speak their voice. Dubois feels that it is absolutely possible for two races two live in economic, political, and religious harmony and achieve side-by-side peace and mutual happiness.