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.
--Du Bois, quoted in Cornel West, Race Matters, 1994, Vintage Books, p. 138.
--Du Bois, quoted in Cornel West, Race Matters, 1994, Vintage Books, p. 138.
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Well-said. This is pretty much exactly how I imagine minority self-awareness playing out.
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