mccannamandajane 's review for:

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

5.0

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W.E.B Du Bois' work originated in many forms the discussion of epistemic injustice and the separation felt by marginalized communities who are bombarded by hermeneutical resources which neither reflect their experiences nor adequately communicate their experience of the dominant (white) culture of America. His articulation of the "veil" and his hesitance to disrupt the way that he is perceived by those outside of his sub-cultural group speaks to a self-preservation absolutely necessary within marginalized communities who have had to fight tooth and nail historically to maintain and develop their own cultural and hermeneutical resources in the face of devastating destruction by colonist groups and the relentless centering of their own experiences as standard.
Valuable and never elsewhere quite so well articulated.