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The Negro is a sort of seventh son, 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. 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. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. If you're black, you can't just be yourself in America.That's because you're a minority in a white majority culture that looks down on you. When you look at yourself, you see yourself through the eyes of this white majority culture.
My mom actually went to a fortune teller and found out she got black in her soul. My point is I'm blacker than a mothafucka. And I love it. #Black is beautiful#Black.
You see yourself with all the negative stereotypes that white America attaches to you. You're stuck in this 'double-consciousness' because you're forced to see yourself not just as a person, but as a black person.Du Bois's discussion of 'double-consciousness' represents one of the first attempts on the part of a person of color to theorize what it means to be an ethnic or racial minority in white America.
There's a reason his book became a big influence on Ethnic Studies, 70 years after it was written.
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