Talking of the history of the strife of his people, who says? "He would not Africanize America, for…
This famous passage on 'double consciousness' ('He would not Africanize America... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American') is…
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Talking of the history of the strife of his people, who says?
"He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro Soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American........"
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This famous passage on 'double consciousness' ('He would not Africanize America... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American') is from Chapter 1 ('Of Our Spiritual Strivings') of W.E.B. Du Bois's 'The Souls of Black Folk' (1903).
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