LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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The “Talented Tenth.”
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All African Americans.
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African American women.
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Only White Americans.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Du Bois thought it a good time for African Americans to advance their positions in society. The “Talented Tenth” refers to the one in ten Black men that have cultivated the ability to become leaders of the Black community by acquiring a college education, writing books, and becoming directly involved in social change.
Detailed explanation-2: -His theoretical concept of the ‘Talented Tenth” emphasized the education and training in leadership of ten percent of the African-American population. This selective group would transform the larger, uneducated segment of the population and lead them to higher levels of social acceptance and independence.
Detailed explanation-3: -W.E.B. Du Bois knows that one of the most important concepts of the many that he defined was “the Talented Tenth.” Many of us even committed to memory the first two sentences of perhaps his most famous essay, published in 1903 in a book called The Negro Problem, and edited by Du Bois’s nemesis, Booker T.
Detailed explanation-4: -In an essay published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1897, “Strivings of the Negro People, ” Du Bois wrote that Black Americans should instead embrace their African heritage even as they worked and lived in the United States. Du Bois published his seminal work The Souls of Black Folk in 1903.