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W.E.B. Du Bois: “That nations are coming to believe it is manifest daily.”

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That nations are coming to believe it is manifest daily.
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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Du Bois observes that nations increasingly embrace the belief in whiteness as a dominant ideology.

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