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"The Veil", The Color Line, Oppression, The Effect of the Veil…
"The Veil"
Double Consciousness
Second Sight
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Critique of democracy. Demagoguery can arise in Black communities when Black people are disempowered
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Alienation from the broader global community. Certain cultures contributions to global society are acknowlegded in a way Black culutre is not.
Two-ness of self: "an American, A Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings, two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps alone keeps it from being torn asunder"
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Measuring onesself through the eyes of white people "... from this must arise a painful self-consciousness, an almost morbid sense of personality and a moral hesitancy which is fatal to self-confidence" (127)
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The Color Line
Revolutionary v. Conciliatory responses Oppression stemming from the Color Line creates two responses, mirroriing the two divisions of the self from the veil
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"The negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with the second-sight in this American World"
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Dialectic where mutual recognitiion becomes in possible where Black and White people cannot interact as equals. Master-slave dynamic persists.
