...scholar and activist WEB DuBois (1989) wrote of double consciousness as a coping response to racism. unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one...dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. (DuBois, 1989, p. 3) Since color was used to separate people in DuBois' America, he saw black children...

...Bois: "One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unrecognized strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose...strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." 6 Of course, Du Bois was writing of the conflicts African Americans experienced living in America....

...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: two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled striving; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn...

...this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.... One ever feels his two-ness, — An American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings...."39 Inherent in this Du Boisian quote, however, is a dislocated image of Africa because...

...naming a "double consciousness" felt by African Americans. According to Du Bois, the African American "ever feels his two-ness — an American, A Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings"(1989, p. 5).6In a recent biography of Du Bois, David L. Lewis details the intellectual impact...

...this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.... One ever feels his twoness — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts... in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.50 Born encircled by...

...Monthly that the African American experiences an inevitable "double-consciousness" proceeding from "two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body,"50 so, too, does Pauline Hopkins in these accounts use James's description of a "consciousness...

...their consciousness of the world around them. They experienced, to quote WEB Du Bois's famous phrase, "two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body."34 Of course, any suggestion that whites had more race than blacks, or vice versa, is absurd...

...the subaltern is forever aware of contemptuous looks from America's white majority. Du Bois writes, "[O]ne ever feels his twoness — an American, a Negro, two souls, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body" (45). Thus, both Ida Bee and Momah suffer...

..."Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil" and gifted with a "double consciousness" or a kind of "two-ness — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings," and that the "problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line." The official literature...