Summary Of W. E. B. Du Bois Photography

In this reading, Shawn Michelle Smith writes about W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk and Du Bois’ photographs. Smith argues that “Du Bois’ photographs challenge a physical, and biological, paradigm of white supremacists racial differentiation.” Throughout the reading Smith compares and contrasts how whites and blacks look at photos, mainly of lynching, and can see two separate things in the same photographs. On page 278 there is a quote from a description of a fiction white judge speaking to a black man. This quote how blacks should be subordinate and cannot be equal to whites while saying it is okay to lynch blacks if the black wishes to marry a white woman. Reading this it is stated that this is a fictional character written by