...the plaintive query : " How does it feel to be a problem? " To descend to particulars, he says : " After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman,...of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world — a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only...

...different accounts of an experience that comes sometime in life to every Negro. "The Negro," says Du Bois, "is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world — a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only...

...and a stranger in mine own house ? The " shades of the prisonhouse " closed round about us all : walk strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly...this American world, — a world which yields him no self -consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is...

...BUREEGHARDT. WE Burghardt DuBois. 112 PAGE 28 SEVENTH SON. In The Souls of Black Folk DuBois writes: After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman,...and gifted with second-sight in this American world. . . . PAGE 28 IN "A Litany of Atlanta," DUBOIS WRITES: Thou art not dead, but flown afar up hills of...

...nation knew him. Of this condition, WEB Du Bois had long ago written these vivid oft-quoted words : The Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world — a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only...

...responsible for a memorable and seminal statement on the American Negro's double sense of himself: The Negro is a sort of seventh son born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world . . . one ever feels his two-ness — an American, a Negro; two...

...Persians (culminating with the Egyptians), Greeks, Romans, and Germans.7 DuBois brought on the Negro as "a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world. . . ."8 In voodoo belief, the seventh son is the fortunate one and to be born with a veil is to have...

...has preternatural powers. See The Souls of Black Folk, p. 3, in which he speaks of the Negro as "a seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world." For Jefferson's complaint see his Notes on the State of Virginia, 2nd ed. (London, 1787), pp. 228-240....

...revelation once the Old Testament veil has been sundered in Christ. DuBois cast the Negro as the world's "seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world," for whom emancipation "was the key to a promised land of sweeter beauty than ever stretched before...

...figures of speech in The Souls of Black Folk is the "veil" that shuts out the Negro from the world: "the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in the American world - a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself...