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The Harlem Renaissance Prose Reading Guide W.E.B. Du Bois—Excerpt from The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois says that there is a question on the minds of every white person who speaks to him, but no one asks the question openly, and he rarely speaks about it. What is this question? What does this question mean? Why do you think people
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The Harlem Renaissance Prose Reading Guide W.E.B. Du Bois—Excerpt from The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois says that there is a question on the minds of every white person who speaks to him, but no one asks the question openly, and he rarely speaks about it. What is this question? What does this question mean? Why do you think people don’t ask it openly? Why do you think Du Bois chooses not to talk about it directly with white people? What does Du Bois mean when he says he “reduce[s] the boiling to a simmer”? What emotions is he referring to? What causes these emotions? Why does Du Bois tell us his personal story about when he first was treated differently because of his skin color? How does he say that this event from his childhood changed him? How does this story set up what he has to say about race? Du Bois describes how other African American children have been affected by their treatment because of their skin color. What are some of these effects? Are they positive or negative? What is “double-consciousness”? Have you ever experienced something like it? How did you feel, or how do you think you would feel? According to Du Bois, African Americans do not want to Africanize America or Americanize their African heritage. Wh
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