- The passage explores the concept of barriers and divisions between different groups of people
- It highlights the failure of communication and understanding between the white world and the black world
- The role of a black spokesman in mediating between the two worlds is discussed
- The importance of collective political action and revolution is emphasized
- The influence of the Russian Revolution on Du Bois's thinking is explored
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therung des not entorn in head, it is dus, glances curity and walks on I gradually penetrates the mind of the prison that the people passing do now hear that some thick dees of invisible hor bostrildy tangible plate glass is between them and the world. They get excited, they talk louder, they gesticulate, Sonne of the passing world stop bi curiosity, these greticulations seem peditless, they laugh and pass on. They still either do not hear at all, or bear bot dienly, and even what they hear, they do not understand. Then the people within may becsune hysterical They may scream and hurt themselves against the barriers, hardly realizing in their bewilderment that they are screaming in a vacsoro unheard and that their antics may actually seem funny those outside looking in. They may even, here and there, break through in blood and disfigurement, and find themselves faced by a horrified, implacable, and quite overwhelming melves people frightened for their own very existence.
about the relationship of a member of the Talented Tenth to the black folk. Here de concern is with the relationship of the white world to the black world, ach the figure of the black spokesman mediating between the two. The elationship of the two worlds is again presented through a differentiation of haring and sight. The failure of hearing leads to a distortion of sight so that de "entenbed" begin to appear in their frustration either as laughable or as savage threat that can be contained only through mob violence. The source denlightenment is not so much reversed as made reciprocal. Freedom lies ide the cave, but there is also a truth the white world needs to learn from imprimed.
de The treatment of the black leader figure is more equivocal. The begins with attention focused on the "one" who has to speak he of the presents the the putride world. Here at least Platos speak on bring knowledge out of the cave and not into it.) Lateruardian attention shifts from the one to the many as the prisoners abes become speaking subjects. Earlier in Dusk of Dawn, describerg pet of racistence on his own stance of scientific objecibing progres, Du Bois writes that "one could not be a calm, cool, sity ded zientist while Negroes were lynched, murdered and starved. "Id page quoted above from the later "Concept of Race" chapter, it is the spokesman's talking "evenly and logically" leads to nothing that the penes become collectively vocal. But if the reasoned arguments of fall on deaf ears, the efforts of the many can be seenSEAMOON ZAMIE
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intelligence within the limits of a radicall cost The making articulate of the outgod canne sind as the fiction of the spokesman's ethical address to the white world. The process of such advocacy the leader himself becomes an outsider the grand Du Bois recognizes that outside leadership will coartitically misinterpret and compromise and complicate matters, ঠিক এ will. But to remain only within the group is to risk becoming "pesimis and centered upon the problems of his particular group. I onder to bette "a group man, a 'race' man," the individual may have to sacrifice "the sider aspects of national life and human existence." familiar from the analysis
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doublauch from the first chapter of Sentary in a directive son of Duck of double akes the autobiographical cook. The final chapte Daww he conclusion of the earlier boats De Bone's of Dask of De focalled "Revolution." "The chapters Boss's ove beyed deception of ignorance and deliberadden and partially cofrece prejudic conceplan understanding of other "hidden and partially concealed causes of race hate." These other causes are spinoy summarized as capitalin planned perpetuation of material and spiritual and intellectual deprivation The summary is itself placed between two visions of collective political action, one from the past, leading Du Bois toward a radical reformulation his ideas, and the other a promise of future revolution. Consciousness and materialist understanding, self and collectivity, now begin to move toward a new synthesis:
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I think it was the Russian Revolution which first illuminated and made clear [the] change in my basic thought. It was not that I at any time conceived of Bolshevik Russia as ushering in any present millennium. I was painfully sensitive to all its failures, to all the difficulties which it faced; but the clear and basic thing which appeared to me in unquestioned brightness, was that in the year 1917 and then, after a struggle with the world and famine ten years later, one of the largest nations of the world made up its mind frankly to face a set of problems which no nation at that time was willing to face, and which many nations including our own are unwilling fully to face even to this day.
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