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DuBois's “Double Consciousness”: Race and Gender in Progressive Era American Thought

1992; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0898588x00000754

1469-8692

Adolph Reed,

American History and Culture

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, 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 un-reconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.