In the first extended social science analysis of powerful whiteness, the pioneering book Darkwater (1920), the influential sociologist _________ noted that "the discovery of personal whiteness among the world's people is a very modern thing. … The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction … we have changed all that, and the world in a sudden, emotional conversion has discovered that it is white and by that token, wonderful!"
A) W.E.B. Du Bois
B) Frederick Douglass
C) Oliver C. Cox
D) Ida B. Wells-Barnett
E) Anna Julia Cooper

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W.E.B. Du Bois is the author of "Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil" (1920), where he discusses the concept of "whiteness" as a modern and socially constructed identity.

In the First Extended Social Science Analysis of Powerful Whiteness