Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.”
- Source
- The Souls of Black Folk
- Date
- 1903
Meaning of “The problem of the Twentieth Century is the…”
Du Bois identifies racial division and unequal relations between darker and lighter peoples as a defining political and social problem of his century.
Where does it come from?
The Souls of Black Folk, Forethought and repeated later in the book. The phrase is a historical diagnosis of racism, segregation and the aftermath of slavery, not a generic statement about interpersonal difference.
