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The argument of the first chapter, entitled "The Souls of Black Men," in one sentence: W. E. B. Du Bois' seminal The Souls of Black Folk, in an attempt to define/create a distinctly black community, places the black female at odds with black identity, rendering that identity male, and this (gendered) black identity still haunts African American scholarship today.