In the article “The Souls of Black Folk Summary” by W.E.B Du Bois, the author discusses his belief that African American in the U.S lives with two contradictory individualities that can never fully merged with one another. This book introduces many critical social concepts, such as double-consciousness and the Veil. African-Americans are described to have lived their life behind a veil; they can understand what lives others that within their social standing. But for white people, they have a difficult time understanding the lives of African Americans and the experiences they have faced living here in the United States. Especially children who know, from an early age, about the existents of the veil while the white children remain oblivious
