Overview
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered Du Boisās impassioned yet formal prose, the largely autobiographical chapters of The Souls of Black Folks take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neo-slavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, mis-education, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual āsorrow songsā that birthed gospel music and the blues. The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk is Du Boisās haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psycheās ādouble consciousness,ā which he described as āa peculiar sensation....One ever feels this twonessāan American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.ā
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