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A 10 page paper which compares and contrasts
the search for black identity in W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Souls of Black Folks” and Langston
Hughes’ “The Big Sea.” Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
Page Count:
10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAhughe.rtf
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of African Americans as it details the African American experience. It may well be stated that these are the next generation of works following on the heels of slavery narratives
such as Frederick Douglass "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass." In essence, they tell the condition of black identity following the demise of slavery, from people who were
never physically enslaved, but yet were still socially enslaved. In the following paper we examine the two works independently and then provide a comparison and contrast of the Du Bois
work and Hughes work. Souls of Black Folks "W. E. B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is a seminal work in African American literature and
an American classic. In this work Du Bois proposes that the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line" (Leiter summary.html). His work, having been written so
early in the 20th century, is truly a work that speaks of the society and the culture of America as the African American seeks to find identity following the Civil
War and the freeing of slave. And, well beyond that, "His concepts of life behind the veil of race and the resulting double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at ones
self through the eyes of others, have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. In addition to these enduring concepts, Souls offers an assessment of the progress of the
race, the obstacles to that progress, and the possibilities for future progress as the nation entered the twentieth century" (Leiter summary.html). He begins with an examination of the years
that followed on the heals of the Civil War and perhaps most particularly on the "Freedmens Bureaus role in Reconstruction. The Bureaus failures were due not only to Southern opposition
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