Simone de Beauvoir and W.E.B. DuBois were existentialists whose ideas were reflected in their works The Second Sex and The Souls of Black Folk respectively. They wrote in response to the dominant theories surrounding the cause of and the answer to the discrimination faced by women and blacks. Both, sharing the existentialist mindset, believed neither women nor blacks were born into their individual lifestyles as the weaker gender or race. Living a life …showed first 75 words of 1430 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1430 total…to this day are much the same. While equality is still not a reality in the modern world Simone de Beauvoir and W.E.B. DuBois had the foresight to recognize that that would never be the case. Their ideas were tailored to accommodate that reality. Women and blacks are no longer the slaves of a society where all men were supposedly created equal due in large part to the writings of these existentialist thinkers.