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Of Our Spiritual Strivings Chapter 1 Summary

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Chapter Summaries Chapter 1. Of Our Spiritual Strivings In this book W.E.B Du Bois explains how he experience racial diversity at a very young age and he also spoke about two major ______ the “double consciousness” and “the veil”. “Double consciousness” is the belief that African-Americans in the United States live with two different identities. Du bois describes that one of the most important thing to the black experience is the black identity, the second thing was the American identity. He stated that the American-Identity, is an identity that which black men are born into only because remnants of slavery. Working along the main idea of double observations in African- Americans who has lived in the experience that hides behind a veil. People

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