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Choose one of the following questions to answer:
1) What does Du Bois mean when he asks “What does it mean to a problem?” What is a “problem people”?
2) What are the differences between the racial term “Black” and the ethnic term “African American”? Are all Blacks, African American? Vice versa?
3) How does Phillis Wheatley’s poetry convey Du Bois’ notion of “double consciousness”?
4) How does James Baldwin reconcile being Black in America?
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