...ideals, our language, our religion. Farther than that, our Americanism does not go. At that point, we are Negroes, members of a vast historic race that...to-morrow which is yet destined to soften the whiteness of the Teutonic to-day. We are that people whose subtle sense of song has given America its only American...

...appropriate since the American Negro (like Royce's Californian) is understood by DuBois as a new formation: We are the first fruits of this new nation, the harbinger...to-morrow which is yet destined to soften the whiteness of the Teutonic to-day. We are that people whose subtle sense of song has given America its only American...

...ideals, our language, our religion. Farther than that, our Americanism does not go. At that point, we are Negroes, members of a vast historic race that...tomorrow which is yet destined to soften the whiteness of the Teutonic to-day.3 It is only the descendants of Africans, Du Bois continues, who have saved America...

...ideals, our language, our religion. Farther than that, our Americanism does not go. At that point, we are Negroes, members of a vast historic race that...to-morrow which is yet destined to soften the whiteness of the Teutonic to-day. We are that people whose subtle sense of song has given America its only American...

...ideals, our language, our religion. Farther than that, our Americanism does not go. At that point, we are Negroes, members of a vast historic race that...tomorrow which is yet destined to soften the whiteness of the Teutonic today. We are that people whose subtle sense of song has given America its only American...

...would be essentially spiritual in nature. "We are the first fruits of this new nation," he argued, "the harbinger of that black tomorrow which is yet destined to soften the whiteness of the Teutonic today."104 By 1915 Du Bois had expanded his 101. Baldwin, "Martin Luther King. Jr., the...

...point, we are Negroes, members of a vast historic race that from me very dawn of creation has slept, bur half awakening in the dark forests of its African...to-morrow which is yet destined to soften the whiteness of the Teuronic to-day. We are mat people whose subtle sense of song has given America its only Ametican...

...Bois's evolutionary narrative of race development from a semimythologized African childhood onward - "we are Negroes, members of a vast historic race that...awakening in the dark forests of its African fatherland (p. 81)" - has its counterpart in the mythic Greek past Jewett's narrator imagines for the Bowdens....

...ideals, our language, our religion. Farther than that, our Americanism does not go. At that point, we are Negroes, members of a vast historic race that...to-morrow which is yet destined to soften the whiteness of the Teutonic to-day. We are that people whose subtle sense of song has given America its only American...

...ideals, our language, our religion. Farther than that, our Americanism does not go. At that point, we are Negroes, members of a vast historic race that...half awakening in the dark forests of its African fatherland.37 It also requires concerted and coordinated efforts on the part of black people themselves:...