Abstract
W. E. B. DuBois made the famous statement that the problem of the 20th century is the color line.1What did he mean? He was making the point that race and color have ontological significance in the ethos and worldview of white Western societies. He was saying that the mystique of race and color, particularly of Blackness and Whiteness, would present an inescapable problem to our thinking, feeling, politics and economics, culture and religion, for at least a hundred years.