The Veil

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Virginia S

 

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February 11, 2016

 

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Mentioned at least once in most of the 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 which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world...
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others. The veil is a metaphor for the separation and invisibility of black life and existence in America and is a reoccurring theme in books about black life in America. Du Bois's veil metaphor, "In those somber forests of his striving his own soul rose before him, and he saw himself, -darkly as though through a veil" is an allusion to Saint Paul's line in Isiah 25:7, "For now we see through a glass, darkly...
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