 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - 1903 - 292 ˹éÒ
...sense "of always looking at one's 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».— Jin American, a Negro ; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciledT strivings ; two... | |
 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - 1907 - 312 ˹éÒ
...only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking...amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness, — ajj, American, a Negro ; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled sTnvmgs ; two warring ideals... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - 1923 - 808 ˹éÒ
...ideals has found a classic expression in Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk: It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking...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 ;... | |
 | Ronald Cedric White, Charles Howard Hopkins - 1976 - 330 ˹éÒ
...a pretty large part of your own consciousness? "It is a peculiar sensation," says this Negro, "this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking...on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals... | |
 | Alphonso Pinkney - 1976 - 284 ˹éÒ
...1897 he described the dilemma faced by blacks: It is a peculiar sensation, this doable consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through...that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feeb his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring... | |
 | Brenda Johnson Wright, Vivian R. Isenstein - 1977 - 44 ˹éÒ
...researched by white social scientists. He 16 It is a peculiar sensation this double-consciousness, the sense of always looking at one's self through the...amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness as an American, a Negro with two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals... | |
 | Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan - 1977 - 620 ˹éÒ
...is ever the subject of a "double consciousness"; dominated by a "sense of always looking at oneself through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul...world that looks on in amused contempt and pity." To Dr. Washington the negro race is a great race; during the Civil War the negro exhibited a remarkable... | |
 | David M. Katzman, William M. Tuttle - 1982 - 242 ˹éÒ
..."double-consciousness," a "sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one' s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."1 Certainly, Jews and Catholics, Russians, Poles, Italians, and Irish, living under the eyes... | |
 | Wilson Jeremiah Moses - 1988 - 354 ˹éÒ
...double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring...looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels this twoness, — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring... | |
 | R. Laurence Moore - 1987 - 264 ˹éÒ
...of Black Folk (p. 45), DuBois commented: "It is a particular sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through...world that looks on in amused contempt and pity." 34. Payne, for example, referred to black spiritual songs as "Corn-field Ditties" and in characterizing... | |
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. 
