Prayer to the Masks | Compare and Contrast
1903: W. E. B. Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk, declaring that the problem of our epoch is the problem of the "color line."
1928: Claude McKay publishes his novel Banjo, which champions Caribbean "folk" cultures and raises important issues about tensions between blacks in the Caribbean and Africans. The novel was intensely discussed among the African and Caribbean students in Paris, including the founders of the "Negritude" movement.
1934: Parisian poet-students Senghor, Césaire, and Damas found the journal L'Etudiant Noir...
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