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A 3 page paper which examines the meaning of “double-consciousness” as presented by W.E.B. Du Bois. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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work served to uncover some incredible truths that many people ignored, or did not understand. In much of his work he addressed something called double-consciousness and defined it as a
very unique position, but a position that could easily lead to misunderstandings in many ways as people struggle with racial lines and barriers. The following paper examines three different essays,
or chapters in a sense, two by Du Bois and one from Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., taken from "A Century of Souls." The paper examines how Du Bois double-consciousness
was something he was victim to as well, further emphasizing his focus on the condition. Double-Consciousness In Chapter 1 of Du
Bois "Souls of Black Folks," titled "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," he introduces the reader to the notion and concept of double-consciousness. Write a two page essay discussing what Du Bois
calls "double-consciousness." In this chapter he illustrates how the Negro is something of a seventh son, indicating the race possesses a very unique position in history and in the overall
history and condition of humanity. This position ensures that the Negro is "born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,--a world which yields him no true
self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world" (Du Bois [1]). It is this particular condition
that is termed double-consciousness for the Negro only really sees their identity through the vision of another consciousness, primarily the white people. "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this
sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes of others, of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity"
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