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... Ethiopia in Exile: Jamaica Revisited - Page 205by Bessie Pullen-Burry - 1905 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
| Asia - 1906 - 946 pages
...the streak of blue above. * By WE Burghardt Du Bois. (Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., London.) " One ever feels his two-ness — an American, a negro...unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. The history of the American negro is... | |
| Asia - 1906 - 918 pages
...watch the streak of blue above. * By WE Burghardt Du Bois. (Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., London.) "One ever feels his two-ness — an American, a negro;...unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. The history of the American negro is... | |
| Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford - Africa, West - 1911 - 278 pages
...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 twoness — an American, a Negro;...unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Ah ! there's the rub ! Poor Ethiopia... | |
| John Moffatt Mecklin - African Americans - 1914 - 308 pages
...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,...unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." It would of course be committing the... | |
| 1921 - 436 pages
...(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,... | |
| Vivian Trow Thayer - American literature - 1923 - 808 pages
...others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One feels his two-ness — an American, a Negro; two souls,...unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. It is this double consciousness of the... | |
| American essays - 1897 - 962 pages
...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...unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. 194 195 The history of the American Negro... | |
| August Meier - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 356 pages
...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... | |
| Archives - 1995 - 212 pages
...up the African predicament in America: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness. . . . One ever feels his two-ness — an American, a Negro;...unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." By the time he graduated from Fisk in... | |
| Kate Reed - Social Science - 2006 - 200 pages
...measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels this twoness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts,...unreconciled strivings: two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. (DuBois 1903: 2-3) For DuBois, the American... | |
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