I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
“From the fissure of their ever-present double consciousness sprang the idea of the double victory, articulated by James Thompson in his letter… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“African American racial consciousness responds to the horrors of the Middle Passage and New World slavery as well as to the unfulfilled… — Bruce Dain Copy Share Image
“Double consciousness is knowing the particularity of the white world in the face of its enforced claim to universality. Double consciousness is… — Steve Biko Copy Share Image
The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A writer has a use for his experiences that most civilians simply don't; he or she discerns material in situations that others… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“He was burdened, poor Strether—it had better be confessed at the outset—with the oddity of a double consciousness. There was detachment in… — Henry James Copy Share Image
