We Wear the Mask

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English

 

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Susan J

 

Date added:

March 6, 2015

 

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University

 

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A

 

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3 / 575

 

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When my family gets together, I frequently am forced to go to these events and put a smile on my face. I am acting. I am putting on my "mask" and pretending that I am happy. This artificial face is the subject of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, "We Wear the Mask." Dunbar expresses his feelings on what African-Americans were forced to do a century ago...
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People thought they were happy doing the work they did for the white culture. In reality, they were not. That is the point Dunbar tries to explain to his readers. I have never published a poem attacking what my family makes me do and how I put on a joyous face. Dunbar wrote "We Wear the Mask" in 1903, at the peak of resistance to the Jim Crow laws...
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