W.E.B. Du Bois's *I*Souls of Black Folk*/I*, a

collection of autobiographical and historical essays contains

many themes. There is the theme of souls and their attainment

of consciousness, the theme of double consciousness and the

duality and bifurcation of black life and culture; but one of

the most striking themes is that of "the veil." The

veil provides a link between the 14 seemingly unconnected

essays that make up *I*The Souls of Black Folk*/I*. Mentioned

at least once in most of the 14 essays it means that,

"the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil,

and gifted with second sight in this American world, -a world

with yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him

see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is

a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense

of always looking at one's self through the eyes of

name=Footnote1A*Footnote1*/A* The veil is a metaphor for the

separation and invisibility of black life and existence in

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lift it, and even transcend it. In the forethought Du Bois

use of the metaphor of the veil. Both writers claim that as

memory for Black Americans, Du Bois struggles in the pages of

passed over my baby, I saw the cold city towering above the

blacks from whites. The theme of the psychological separation

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Approximate Word count = 3121
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)