The Different Conceptions of the Veil in The Souls of Black Folk


"For now we see through a glass, darkly"

-Isiah 25:7


W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk, a collection of autobiographical
and historical essays contains many themes. There is the theme of souls and
their attainment of consciousness, the theme of double consciousness and the
duality and bifurcation of black life and culture; but one of the most striking
themes is that of "the veil." The veil provides a link between the 14 seemingly
unconnected essays that make up The Souls of Black Folk. Mentioned at least once
in most of the 14 essays it means that, "the Negro is a sort of seventh son,
born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world, -a world
with yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets 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 self through the
eyes of......

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