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Essay #1
Running head: W.E.B. Dubois<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Criteria of Negro Art\u201d
LBST 255
Arts and Ideas of the Emerging Modern World:
The Harlem Renaissance
W.E.B. Dubois, a Harlem Renaissance pioneer and a founder of the \u201cTalented Tenth\u201d, worked diligently to ensure that there were equal and civil rights for all blacks.
Dubois was relentless in his efforts to enlighten society of how valuable the African American man and woman are and the contributions that he or she would make if
allowed, afforded and accepted in America in the 1920\u2019s.
During this era it was very harsh being an African American in the south; murders, lynching\u2019s and injustice ran rampant. African American\u2019s in the north had
situations of racial discourse, but not as extreme as in the south.
Dubois was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1868. He migrated to the north at a young age. Over the years he tarried back and forth between the north and the south,
first being educated and then becoming an educator. I am certain that during his travels; he was exposed to some form of racism and ill treatment as a black man.
Dubois, who graduated from Harvard University, knew that blacks had more to contribute to America, than sharecropping. Dubois, was an opponent of another prominent
African American, Booker T. Washington, who held the position of being an \u201caccommodationist\u201d( Harlan, 1983). Dubois believed that a higher education would be the
African American man and woman\u2019s passageway to the equality that they deserved and desired. Washington however was against African American\u2019s participation in higher
education, literature and aesthetics. He believed it was futile in a white dominated society. It is no wonder that Washington would be deemed the spokesman for
African Americans, by a white community of governor\u2019s and philanthropist, he was their ally. He would commonly be referred to by elite African American\u2019s as an \u201cUncle
Tom\u201d. Washington, was favored by whites as he touted that a vocational education would aid in, \u201ckeeping blacks \u201cdown on the farm\u201d and in the trades (Harlan, 1983)\u201d.
Dubois explained that the black man (and woman), struggled with an innate duality of a double consciousness, \u201cIt is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness,
this sense of always looking at one\u2019s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one\u2019s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One
ever feels his two-ness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body (Dubois, 1903)\u201d.
Specifically, in the \u201cCriteria of Negro Art\u201d, Dubois, is sharing that the African American man and woman may use their creativity as a way out and \u201cWith the growing
recognition of Negro artist in spite of the severe handicaps, one comforting thing is occurring to both white and black. They are whispering here is a way out
(Dubois, 1903)\u201d.
Dubois, who lived and experienced the challenge of African American\u2019s who are and have been stripped of their identities and having to acclimate to what was told to
them as the right way or the right thing to do, their actions and activities continually validated through the eyes of a \u2018white world\u2019. Dubois opened the minds of
many African American\u2019s to do what Shakespeare states in his work, Hamlet, \u201cthis above all: to thine own self be true (Shakespeare, Hamlet)\u201d.
References
http:\/\/www.webdubois.org\/dbCriteriaNArt.html
http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/washington\/bio.html<\/p>\n

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To Thine Own Self Be True<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n