...particulars, he says : " After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world — a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only...

...different accounts of an experience that comes sometime in life to every Negro. "The Negro," says Du Bois, "is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world — a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only...

...streak of blue above. After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil,...this American world, — a world which yields him no self -consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is...

...Black Folk DuBois writes: After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil,...and gifted with second-sight in this American world. . . . PAGE 28 IN "A Litany of Atlanta," DUBOIS WRITES: Thou art not dead, but flown afar up hills of...

...nation knew him. Of this condition, WEB Du Bois had long ago written these vivid oft-quoted words : The Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world — a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only...

...is appropriate that I quote the great literarian and intellectual. William EB DuRois who once wrote that "the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with...self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelations of the other world." Mr. Chairman, in the spirit of the bicentennial. I urge you to give...

...is appropriate that I quote the great literarian and intellectual, William EB DuBois who once wrote that "the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with...self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelations of the other world." Mr. Chairman, in the spirit of the bicentennial, I urge you to give...

...responsible for a memorable and seminal statement on the American Negro's double sense of himself: The Negro is a sort of seventh son born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world . . . one ever feels his two-ness — an American, a Negro; two...

...streak of blue above. After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil,...him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's...

...principles of Black selfdetermination. Articulating the "dual consciousness" of the African American in a "world, which yields him no true self-consciousness,...him see himself through the revelation of the other world," DuBois asserted: [I]t is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always...