To Be Both a Negro and an American: W. E. B. DuBois and His Search for an African American Identity

Posted by William Kashatus on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on To Be Both a Negro and an American: W. E. B. DuBois and His Search for an African American Identity What, after all, am I?” asked W.E.B. DuBois when he arrived in Philadelphia in 1897 to study the city’s black community. “Am I an American or am I a Negro? Can I be both? Or is it my duty to cease to be a Negro as soon as possible and be an American?” Not only did this tension characterize DuBois’ classic work, The Philadelphia Negro, published two years later in...
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