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‘Of Our Spiritual Strivings’ The Souls Of Black People W. E. B. DuBois -…
‘Of Our Spiritual Strivings’
The Souls Of Black People
W. E. B. DuBois
Realisation of the Veil
“shut out from their world by a vast veil”
I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.
Disintegration if the Veil? Or just the contempt? over the years with the realisation of the opportunity that existed on the “other side”
2nd Sight/Double Councsiousness
No true self consciousness, only a perception of the self through the eyes of the “other world”
Remind me of Fanon
the struggle African Americans face to remain true to black culture while at the same time conforming to the dominant white society.
True emancipation,
not just freedom from slavery
Training of the brain
Political freedom
Training of the hands
Physical freedom
These ideals need to be melted and welded into one
The Paradox
The knowledge his people needed was a twice told tale to his white neighbours, while the knowledge which would teach the white world was Greek to his own flesh and blood
A singular identity which intertwines being black and American, where it is black to be american and american to be black
In order that some day on America soil two world races may give each to each those characteristic both so sadly lack
Struggles
To merge two battling identities, and the consequences of not being able to succeed
The double aimed struggle of the black artisan on the one hand to escape white contempt for a nation of mere hewers of wood and drawers of water and on the other hand to plough and nail and dig for a poverty stricken horde could only result in making him a poor craftsmen for he had but half a heart in either cause
The innate love of harmony and beauty that set the ruder souls of his people a-dancing and a-singing raised but confusion and doubt in the soul of the black artist , for beauty revealed to him was the soul-beauty of a race which his larger audience despised and he could not articulate the message of another people
Prejudice = self questioning/disparagement = nation echoing and enforcing this self criticism