 | Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford - 1911 - 278 pàgines
...particulars, he says : " After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, 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... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - 1923 - 808 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1897 - 962 pàgines
...streak of blue above. After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil,...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... | |
 | N J Loftis - 1973 - 132 pàgines
...Black Folk DuBois writes: After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil,...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... | |
 | Harold Robert Isaacs - 1989 - 260 pàgines
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1976 - 1796 pàgines
...appropriate that I quote the great literarian and intellectual. William EB DuRois who once wrote that "the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil...self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelations of the other world." Mr. Chairman, in the spirit of the bicentennial. I urge you to give... | |
 | Amritjit Singh - 2010 - 184 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Joel Williamson - 1984 - 586 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Wilson Jeremiah Moses - 1988 - 354 pàgines
...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.... | |
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Mongolian, 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. 
