Sublime

This conceptual duple reflected what W.E.B. Du Bois indelibly voiced in The Souls of Black Folk in 1903. “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others,” Du Bois wrote. He would neither “Africanize America” nor “bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism.”

Her remarks underscored how the fate of Black people in the United States was—and still is—connected to all Americans, regardless of race, class, or even location. America’s mistreatment of and disregard for Black people in Mississippi, Hamer argued, signaled the nation’s failure to live up to its promises. And this failure was one that fundamental

the papers of the Southern Conference Education Fund, is my mother talking in 1974 about the indigenous prison struggle, meaning Black Southerners recognizing that locking people up was a tool of social control.

blacks “were rather weird creatures dedicated to nonviolence in the midst of a nation as violent as America is, has been, and will be.”

challenge her self-image as someone exempt from racism.

Racist

how is “literary whiteness” and “literary blackness” made, and what is the consequence of that construction?