“But what on earth is whiteness that one should so desire it?” Then always, somehow, some way, silently but clearly, I am given to understand that whiteness is the ownership of the earth forever and ever, Amen!
— W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of White Folk”
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The Souls of White Folk by W.E.B Du Bois is a searing examination of whiteness taken from his Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (1920).
