Larry
04/04/06
W. E. B. Dubois, Of the Dawn of Freedom: A synopsis and critical discussion
William Edward Burghardt Dubois’ work, The Souls of Black Folk, gave a critical discuss of the early, twentieth century through the eyes of the Negro. Although many have limited this work to Dubois’ argument of, The Talented Tenth, it should be noted that Dubois’ work encompasses much more than that. The purpose of the essay is to summarize and give a critical eye to W. E. B. Dubois’ Of the Dawn of Freedom.
In the first line of this work Dubois, states the now famous and words that would be reiterated by most Black intellectuals and social scientist of the twentieth and now early twenty-first century, “THE PROBLEM of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line”. From here Dubois funnels into his thesis, declaring that, the aim of the “essay to study the period of history from 1861 to 1872 so far as it relates to the American Negro.”[1]......
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