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The Hegelian-Marxism of Du Bois: On the Meaning of Double Consciousness
Note: I wrote this paper during my first-year of college, while I was enrolled in Yale’s Directed Studies program. I wanted to share it unedited because, as I look back on my academic journey and intellectual growth, I come to the realization that I have traveled a long, long way in my quest for knowledge.…
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Frederick Douglass: Slave-boy and Statesman
To ask who Frederick Douglass was would be perhaps to engage in intellectual or scholarly puerility. Yet it is a question that generates innumerable answers, while simultaneously it helps summarize the complex and simple, enigmatic and unequivocal character of Douglass. In a book, A Political Companion to Frederick Doulass, the authors write: “Douglass was a…
