Question
In 1903, African American intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois wrote “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.” While Du Bois was mainly reflecting upon the lack of equality of African Americans, by 1900, most Americans had developed a racial worldview that privileged White Americans over members of all other ethnic groups, including immigrants and later, over native peoples in American colonies. In a two-to three-page paper, analyze BOTH of the following:Analyze the following:
The specific state and national policies that further entrenched “the problem of the color-line” with regard to African Americans and immigrants through the First World War.
The role race – OR – racial ideas – played in the acceptance of immigrants within U.S. Culture and as a justification for U.S. imperialism into the 1920s.
