...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;...strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Ah ! there's the rub ! Poor Ethiopia ! how sorely hath the iron of oppression entered into the very...

...that looks on us in amused contempt or pity. One feels his two-ness, an American, a negro, two souls, two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged...the American negro is the history of this strife, the longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a truer, better self, to...

...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,...strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." It would of course be committing the psychologist's fallacy upon a gigantic scale to read the ideas...

...(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,...

...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,...dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. It is this double consciousness of the Negro, always looking at himself through the eyes of others,...

...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...dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. 194 195 The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain...

...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...

...up the African predicament in America: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness. . . . One ever feels his two-ness — an American, a Negro;...strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." By the time he graduated from Fisk in 1888, Du Bois was inclined to draw no distinction between his...

...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. In considering black religious thought from the point of view of religion call them "African" and "Christian."...

...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 . . . body.31 Double consciousness manifests itself most particularly in Chesnutt's characters who...