...self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself throjigh the revelation of the other world. It is a^peculia^ sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense "of...self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's goul by jthe tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his tw<>n£aa».—...

...no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness,...amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness, — ajj, American, a Negro ; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled sTnvmgs ; two warring ideals...

...see himself in its own revelation of him. " It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness — this sense of always looking at one's self through...eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape line of a world that looks on us in amused contempt or pity. One feels his two-ness, an American, a...

...(like his name) that he has French blood in his veins. ' One ever feels his two-ness (he writes) — an American, a negro, two souls, two thoughts, two...unreconciled strivings, two warring ideals in one dark body. . . . Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in my own house ? . . . The very soul of the toiling,...

...to reconcile irreconcilable ideals has found a classic expression in Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk: It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness,...world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One feels his two-ness — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings ;...

...ambivalent loyalties toward race and nation in the minds of American Negroes. As Du Bois said in 1897: One feels his two-ness — an American, a Negro, two souls,...unreconciled strivings, two warring ideals in one dark body. . . . The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain self-conscious...

...their heritage. Author WEB DuBois called being an African-American "double-consciousness." He wrote: One ever feels his two-ness, — an American, a Negro;...unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body. Walker was determined to convince Washington that her products weren't meant to make black women look...

...hybridity of a racially mixed identity. Du Bois's cool analysis of his dual identity is justly famous: "One ever feels his twoness, — an American, a Negro;...un-reconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body." The dilemma Du Bois described was (and remains) the common lot of immigrants. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,...

...America rings clear: black self-consciousness is "double-consciousness, this sense of always looking through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul...tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."42 For blacks, the intractable violence associated with whiteness is emblazoned on their souls...

...round it. ... How does it feel to be a problem? It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through...of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of the world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. 27 Legal scholar Patricia Williams elaborates...