Compare and contrast the major themes in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and me.  What do criticism do both have about the state of education for African Americans? What critiques did Du Bois have a Booker T Washington and what does Coates say about the civil rights movement of the 1960s.  What did Du Bois have of Booker T Washington and what does Coates say about the civil rights movement of the 1960s.  What did Du Bois mean by “double consciousness,” and what was Coates referring to when he spoke of “the dream” and the “dreamers”? What role do the two writers believe African American music, religion, and language play in creating a black community? How optimistic or pessimistic are Du Bois and Coates regarding the ability of American society and its ability to achieve economic justice?