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A 5 page paper discussing W.E.B. Du Bois' feeling that the black American feels irrevocably conflicted in his assessment of himself as a black on the one hand and an American on the other. The paper points out this idea's roots in the conflict between Booker T. Washington's bland assimilationism and Du Bois' deeper, more realistic insight. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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keeps it from being torn asunder." In order to fully appreciate the meaning of this phrase, it is necessary to look at it in the context of the full range
of Du Bois thought, and place it in context not only with his times but with the other black leaders of his era who had a deep influence upon him.
Du Bois lived for nearly a hundred years; his life spanned the era of Reconstruction right after the Civil War to the earliest glimmerings of the Civil Rights movement of
the 1960s. The Souls of Black Folk was one of his earlier works, written during a period when he was locked in mortal ideological combat with Booker T. Washington over
the future and direction of the newly-freed black race. Washington was very much a product of nineteenth century optimism. He felt that the only thing separating the black citizen
from participation in American life was a lack of vocational training, and he could not envision that any black man could honestly aspire higher than that. He was very much
taken with the industrialism of his century, and felt that if blacks could only make it into the labor and trade unions, they would achieve the economic stability of blue-collar
whites. Washington also felt that this was completely possible, and that in fact when white workers saw that the blacks in no way wanted to intrude on their territory but
only to work beside them in peace and harmony, they would welcome them in. For this reason, Booker T. Washington behaved in a very conciliatory manner toward whites, and
did not in any way challenge the white power structure then in force. It is ironic that by operating in this manner, he managed to accrue for himself a considerable
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