![]() ![]() ![]() Then, he expands on that question with a touch of mysticism in describing the Negro race as “a sort of seventh son, born with a veil.” That “veil,” as Du Bois describes it, is an ever-present awareness of one’s own otherness. ![]() Du Bois takes a few different paths to answering the question at the heart of this essay: What does it mean to be black? First, Du Bois bounces back a rhetorical question: “How does it feel to be a problem?” he asks. Newkirk II: “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” is one of the most-often-quoted pieces of the black canon, and it is one of the first thorough attempts at understanding blackness through a psychological and philosophical lens. ![]()
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