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Of Our Spiritual Strivings Summary

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In Of Our Spiritual Strivings, the main concept that WEB DuBois had to share were the dangers of double-consciousness and how the idea that a Veil exists between Caucasians and African Americans. He came to realize this when he was at school and they were passing around post cards and one of the children had refused to give him a card because of his skin color. He then realized at that moment that there was a veil between the Caucasians and African Americans. I did find it interesting that he hadn’t had the desire to attempt to remove the veil. DuBois’ desire was for African Americans to hopefully stay close to their roots but also at the same time without integrating into the white culture. He also said, “After the Egyptian and Indian, the
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