Du Bois described racial outsiders as living outside the American world looking in

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Senna playfully inverts the discovery of the New World as the two sisters, “amid the dust and stuffed animals,” make cities out of them (pp. 5-6). In reconstructing the United States, Senna documents what Du Bois described as the lives of those who find themselves “outside of the American world, looking in” (Du Bois, 1997:157). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2491