S1E4 Double Consciousness: W.E.B DuBois and This Legacy

What is double consciouness and how has it defined the lives of minorities for generations?

• W.E.B. Du Bois

  • Double consciousness describes the individual sensation of feeling as though your identity is divided into several parts, making it difficult or impossible to have one unified identity.

  • The Souls of Black Folk

  • an inward "twoness"

    • The Veil 

  • prevents white people from seeing black people as Americans, and from treating them as fully human

  • Easily related to all races in varying degress

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RESOURCES:

The Souls of Black Folk: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm

W.E.B. DuBois on Double Consciousness: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/strivings-of-the-negro-people/305446/

Twoness in Identity Formation: https://www.geneseo.edu/~esjj/Spring2006_2.html

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