W.e.b. Dubois’ “the Souls Of Black Folks”: A Structural Functionalist Approach

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...Through that window we can look not just at story lines, themes, and plots but at social conditions. Race and ethnic relations, in particular, are given new illumination in some of the greater literary works. Such is the case with such works as W.E. Dubois Souls of Black Folks. Pearson (PG) writes that DuBois attempted to define black identity in this work. Black identity, however, could only be defined in the context of the white society beside which it existed. From a structural functionalism standpoint, Dubois Souls of Black Folks could be contended to provide an almost first-person understanding of the factors influencing the relations between blacks and whites in the time period within which Dubois wrote.
Structural functionalism, of course, is an anthropological premise first founded by Radcliff-Brown and Evans-Pritchard. While initially utilized to aid our understanding of Polynesian and African societies, the premise is now commonly employed on a much wider sociological scale to justify many aspects of culture from many different time periods. Modern sociological theory, as...

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