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Carl Van Vechten, Van Vechten Trust. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
This article is reprinted from Feb. 13, 2015.
W.E.B. Du Bois’s magisterial book The Souls of Black Folk (1907) has left one particularly clear imprint on American conversations: its description, in the opening chapter “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” of African Americans’ “double consciousness,” their sense of being both within and without American identity, insiders yet outsiders to this national community. Yet in his closing chapter “The Sorrow Songs,” Du Bois frames that relationship quite differently, and in a way that shows Black History Month in a new and important light.
Ben Railton
Ben Railton is Professor of English Studies and Coordinator of American Studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. He is the author of five previous books, most recently We the People: The 500-Year Battle over Who is American.
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