https://padlet.com/mlo223/bt1hqo60jklmsyq0 Journal Article I found on WEB DuBois en-us 2021-02-09 23:43:13 UTC 2021-02-10 00:48:36 UTC hello@padlet.com mlo223 https://padlet.com/mlo223/bt1hqo60jklmsyq0/wish/1185126661 The Souls of Black Folk is a widely recognized collection of essays that were coined by the author WEB DuBois. The essays go into depth about two terms; the veil and double-consciousness. He talks about these terms while simultaneously relating his own life and experience to these words and the lives of other African Americans as well. DuBois talks about the veil as something this his consciousness is split in part by and one part belonging to the idealistic Americanism that is white privilege, while the other is the soul of ones own self and how it is hidden behind the veil, not something one should share with others. He establishes the constant battle between the whites and Blacks and how one cannot consume another, while one can also not exist without another which I think is a very strong and valid point. He was not one for submission and unlike the ideas of Washington, DuBois wanted to break free of this veil and not submit to oppression and discrimination. The Souls of Black Folk is deeply influenced by God and by the music that influenced African Americans. The deep faith and passion for religion is something continually brought up by DuBois in order to establish a way in which African Americans were brought together and sought community within one another. There is a cost to freedom but DuBois did not want those with less to not reach for more simply because of the way in which things were. He wanted to challenge that status quo and wanted African Americans to believe that they had the capacity to not only be more than what they were relegated to, but to also be extraordinary. There are many road blocks behind the veil but if you forge your own way, you'll find something you may have never thought you could.]]> 2021-02-10 00:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mlo223/bt1hqo60jklmsyq0/wish/1185126661