Love of the Many Universal Essay

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This same dual nature of love is also exposed, with some variation, in other works that deal with slavery and with the later segregation and institutional racism that typified much of American culture. In W.E.B. DubBois' The Souls of Black Folks, the author describes the birth and death of his first-born child in incredibly poignant yet controlled terms, and links these events to the system of racism in which he lived, and which was one generation removed from the slavery of the nineteenth century. The bittersweet quality of this section as a whole is added to by the author's observation that his child "knew no color line," and thus was not tainted by racism (Ch. XI, par. 10). Yet the father's own experience taints his love for his son, serving as a point of small joy and comfort in the witness of his son's death as an infant. There is both a great strength in the love that DuBois describes, and a severe impediment.

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James Baldwin's "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon" contains another example of the same type of parental relationship tainted by the American system of racism. Though the celebrity protagonist lives in France, he is from America, and his white wife and mixed-race child will be sources of intense curiosity and likely hatred in his upcoming tour of the United States, and this is a source of concern throughout the story. Yet the narrator's description of his child's skin as the color of honey implies a sweet tenderness that the character seems to exhibit throughout his narration; the child is seen as the essential and perhaps only truly solid and important thing in the narrator/protagonist's life, and taking him to the United States will not remove the solidity of the love, but will place its integrity in question by others......

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