...the boundaries of Russia; and I sat in Paris and London. On mountain and valley, in home and school, I met men and women as I had never met them before....Negro " meant a greater, broader sense of humanity and world-fellowship. I felt myself standing, not against the world, but simply against American narrowness...

...the boundaries of Russia; and I sat in Paris and London. On mountain and valley, in home and school, I met men and women as I had never met them before...."Negro" meant a greater, broader sense of humanity and world-fellowship. I felt myself standing, not against the world, but simply against American narrowness...

...experienced what might be called a srcond discovery of race: "On mountain and valley, in home and school, I met men and women as I had never met them before. Slowly they became, not white folks, but folks." ''But race is not only learned from one's environment; it is externally imposed. Thus the racial consciousness...

...he was treated as a peer and an equal. "The unity beneath all life clutched me," Du Bois recalled, "I was not less fanatically a Negro, but 'Negro' meant...color prejudice, with the greater, finer world at my back."116 Living and traveling in Germany, he maintained, freed him "from the extremes of my racial...

...tibid.;1571 Corres pond i ngly. Du Bois's view of white folks was itself transformed. White Europeans became "not white folks. but folks. The unity beneath all life clutched me" tMarable 1986;201. Nevertheless. Du Bois fully recognized that racism in the United States was only...