Essay Question 1: What did W. E. B. Du Bois mean by his concept of "the color-line", and how did it come to be defined so strictly over time?

The idea of “the color –line” alludes basically to the part of race and prejudice in history and society. Be that as it may, of need, for Du Bois, it requires a multidimensional examination which recognizes and looks to comprehend the convergence of race and class as both methods of mastery and methods of resistance on the national and worldwide level. Du Bois connects with the inquiries of race, racial mastery and racial misuse with the understood recommendation that “the issue of the twentieth century is the issue of the shading line." In 1924, W. E. B. Dubois said this in regards to race relations in the United States. He said, "The issue of the twentieth century will be the issue of the shading line." That is, the overwhelming issue amid the century would be the racial clash in the middle of Blacks and whites. Today, regardless of the advancement our nation has made in race relations, despite everything we have an approaches to go. It was the line that held the best employments in the economy for one gathering of individuals, while denying them to another through both the law and private organizations, for example, organizations and, to its ruin, numerous unions who denied participation and occupations to those on the wrong side of the shading line. Also, it is the same shading line that would reject occupations to those on one side of "citizenship" and the fringe. DuBois' age was one of new Progressive history specialists who, with prominently liberal perspectives, composed revisionist histories that impugned the individuals who drove the Civil War in the North as just looking to grow corporate force, utilizing the gathered privileges of dark work as a cudgel to extend corporate force into the agrarian South. In DuBois' day, the pioneers of post-common war Reconstruction were so assaulted as devices of corporate impact that DuBois would later compose that "Not a solitary extraordinary pioneer of the country amid the Civil War and Reconstruction has gotten away assault and defamation."

Essay Question 2: While Du Bois's "color Line" has arguably been a social, economic, and political reality for the past several centuries, to what degree does it still apply in the twenty-first century?

The issue of the twentieth century is the issue of “the color line” the connection of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the ocean.
On the other hand as he had planned the quote a couple of years prior at a gathering:
The issue of the twentieth century is the issue of the color line, the inquiry with reference to how far contrasts of race...will in the future be made the premise of denying to over a large portion of the world the privilege of sharing to their most extreme capacity the open doors and benefits of advanced development. He expresses that "the issue of the twentieth century is the issue of the shading line, the topic of how far contrasts of race-which demonstrate to themselves essentially in the shade of skin and the surface of the hair-will from now on be made the premise of denying to over a large portion of the world the privilege of sharing to their most extreme capacity the open doors and benefits of cutting edge human advancement" (1900a: 125). Du Bois' worry with the shading line as a focal issue of the twentieth century discovers it’s most current expression in the 21st century, then, in what we may comprehend not just as proceeding with European mastery and misuse of people groups of shading, additionally and like never before as the Europeanization of human society and cognizance. Du Bois perceives this, contending at first he didn't question "what the white world was doing, its objectives and beliefs," which he "had not questioned were entirely right." His worry was the white world's dismissal of him regardless of his capacity. Be that as it may, later he would acknowledge how this idea and routine of European development gave him the conundrums of opportunity and subjugation, goals of peace and substances of war, humanism and prejudice, all- inclusive man and racial generalizations.

References: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm http://sdonline.org/33/du-bois-and-the-question-of-the-color-line-race-and-class-in-the-age-of-globalization/