Emergence of the New Negro Mckay, Claude; Toomer, Jean; Fauset, Jessie ...
To Make a Poet Black,
08/2018
Book Chapter
By the time of the death of Booker Washington in 1915 the Negro, with Dr. DuBois as chief architect, had reared a complicated thought structure designed as impregnable against the shifting ...circumstances of that day. He was certain that he must assimilate the characteristics of white America, while at the same time he took pride in his own peculiar contribution to American civilization. He earnestly wished to develop a culture within a culture at the same time laughing derisively at those who urged a forty-ninth state for the colonization of Negroes. Whenever possible he ignored all consciousness of race, and
