... book, Dark Water: Voices From Within the Veil, Du Bois said, "I felt myself standing, not against the world, but simply against American narrowness and color prejudice, with the greater, finer world at my back urging me on. I built great castles in Spain and lived therein. I dreamed and loved and wandered ... mantle. One strike being a woman and the second strike being an African American. According to Alison Ravenscroft of Australian Feminist Studies, "The New Critics in the1980s: theirs was a conservative modernism, envisaged as an almost exclusively white male practice. Their moderni...

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