Analysis Of The Souls Of Black Folks By W. E. B. Dubois

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W.E.B Du Bois explains that African Americans are not relative to the human population according to whites. The vast veil is a metaphor for separation and indiscernibility of African Americans in America. Black life and culture seem to not exist. He explains that blacks are the “seventh son born with a veil” (534) following the “Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and roman, the Teuton and Mongolian” (534). With blacks becoming the seventh son, they face two forms of separation from whites: psychological and physical. The theme of psychological separation of blacks and whites is an important metaphor of Chapter 1 of The Souls of Black Folks. Du Bois tells about his first time of feeling separate from whites. They viewed him as a problem instead