{"id":161,"date":"2019-02-13T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/?p=161"},"modified":"2019-02-13T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:27:19","slug":"butlers-perspectives-on-feminism-and-duboiss-the-souls-of-black-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/butlers-perspectives-on-feminism-and-duboiss-the-souls-of-black-folk\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler&#8217;s Perspectives on Feminism and DuBois&#8217;s &#8220;The Souls of Black Folk&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her 1999 Preface of <em>Gender\u00a0Trouble<\/em>, Butler addresses an internal betrayal of feminism to those it tries to empower. This is, of course, its exclusionary consideration of gender. If those who feminism empowers are only &#8220;women,&#8221; or only those that conduct themselves in &#8220;feminine&#8221; manners, then feminism perpetuates a system that ultimately exists to disenfranchise these individuals. W.E.B. DuBois&#8217;s response to Booker T. Washington&#8217;s &#8220;Atlanta Compromise&#8221; speech, Chapter 3 in <em>The\u00a0Souls\u00a0of\u00a0Black Folk,<\/em> similarly reflects an internal disunity within the black rights movement. Washington proposed in his speech that African Americans focus on trade school and working-class labor before they try to attain civil rights. DuBois rebuts that this submission to the hegemonic race only accepts the alleged inferiority of African Americans, and will never eventually lead to the obtainment of their rights. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her 1999 Preface of Gender\u00a0Trouble, Butler addresses an internal betrayal of feminism to those it tries to empower. This is, of course, its exclusionary consideration of gender. If those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/butlers-perspectives-on-feminism-and-duboiss-the-souls-of-black-folk\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Butler&#8217;s Perspectives on Feminism and DuBois&#8217;s &#8220;The Souls of Black Folk&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}