The Afro-American

<p>This hitherto unpublished essay by W. E. B. Du Bois, the text titled “The Afro-American,” which likely dates to the late autumn of 1894 or the winter of 1895, is an early attempt by the young scholar to define for himself the contours of the situation of the Negro, or “Afro-American...

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Main Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2010-03-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:https://submit.escholarship.org/ojs/index.php/acgcc_jtas/article/view/6986
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description <p>This hitherto unpublished essay by W. E. B. Du Bois, the text titled “The Afro-American,” which likely dates to the late autumn of 1894 or the winter of 1895, is an early attempt by the young scholar to define for himself the contours of the situation of the Negro, or “Afro-American,” in the United States in the mid-1890s. It is perhaps the earliest full text expressing his nascent formulations of both the global “problem of the color-line” and the sense of “double-consciousness” among African Americans in North America.</p>
topic Afro-American
African American
education
race
political ideology
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