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A 7 page paper which provides a general overview as well as an evaluation of the text’s significance and then discusses the past, current and recurring issues in the areas of political leadership, education, work, civil rights, religion, family and social class. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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literature courses and was the first text to declare the notion "Black is Beautiful." It must be remembered that when this text was first published back in 1903 (with
Du Bois adding several revisions during a fifty-year period), slavery, the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation were not distant moments in history. African Americans were still trying to
find their way, and the transition from slavery to "freedmen" was not an easy one. As Du Bois poignant celebration of the African-American experience indicates, the life of a
lowly farmer or sharecropper was not marginally different from that of a slave, and despite all of the political rhetoric about liberty, the Negro was still very much a prisoner
of his skin color (Sundquist 98). There was always the ugly specter of Jim Crow hanging over the promises articulated by the Founding Fathers in the U.S. Constitution.
The recurring themes Du Bois articulates throughout his powerful text include "double consciousness" and the concept of a "veil." Although Du Bois would waffle on the issue of segregation
throughout his life, he never wavered in his belief that even though his counterparts were forced by social prejudice to live as a Negro as well as an American, they
should be accepted as both without having to sacrifice one for the other (Velikova 431). Kirt H. Wilson observed in his literary critique of The Souls of the Black
Folk, "Many scholars believe that the veil of race is Du Bois greatest intellectual contribution... an opaque screen that segregates black and white; social institutions sustain the veils power" (193).
In Chapter IX, Du Bois wrote, "Within the Veil was he born, said I; and there within shall he live,-a Negro and a Negros son. Holding in that little
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