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1 Du Bois
the assignment:
Read and annotate: The Forethought I "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" (skim after paragraph 6) II The first two paragraphs of "Of the Dawn of Freedom" Key ideas and terms to think about and discuss: The Veil Second-sight/double-consciousness/twoness How does it feel to be a problem? The color line "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line."
1.1 the forethought
the "meaning" of being black
- the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line
- we get an overview of the book, nice
- he lives within "the Veil"
- but that is meant to be obvious
1.2 i "of our spiritual strivings"
- the question: "how does it feel to be a problem"
- has ~always been a problem
- shut out from the world of white people by a "vast veil"
- no desire to tear down the vail, but the contempt faded
"for the words i longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine."
- black people are born with a veil and gifted with second-sight
- can only be seen, by himself or others, thorugh the lens of the "other" world
- twoness, in american and black person
- warring ideals
- the end goal: be both american and black w/o trouble internally or from those around you
- freedom was promised but not achieved by emancipation
[skim]
1.3 the dawn of freedom
- relation of the darker to the lighter races of the men
- amendentments from the civil war made the modern racial problems
- tale of the "dawm of freedom"
- deals with the Freedmen's Bureau
- attemps to grapple witht eh vast problems of race and social condition
2 classtime!
one of the most seminal peices of writing of the 20th century first african american to get a phd, and got it from harvard was very important, extensive resume