DuBois and the Disparate Visions of American Propaganda

DuBois questions his audience at the NAACP at the beginning of his speech, “Criteria of Negro Art,”. He asks, if you “suddenly should become full-fledged Americans,” meaning fully assimilated into the dominant white culture, what would you do? (5). While DuBois creates imagery of white obsession with “flamboyant” luxuries like powerful “motor cars,” and “elaborate…

The Snobbcraft and Buggerie of Woodrow Wilson

President of Princeton University and the United States (though not simultaneously) Woodrow Wilson was born to Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Minister Joseph Ruggles Wilson and his wife Janet Woodrow Wilson in a homestead in Staunton, Virginia on December 28, 1856 (Cooper; Ambar: “Life Before”).  His father a chaplain in the Confederate Army during his boyhood years, Wilson…