 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - African Americans - 1903 - 292 pages
...throjigh the revelation of the other world. It is a^peculia^ sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense "of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's goul by jthe tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his tw<>n£aağ.—... | |
 | 1912 - 32 pages
...himself in its own revelation of him. " 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 line of a world that looks on us in amused contempt or pity. One feels his two-ness, an American, a... | |
 | Harold Robert Isaacs - Political Science - 1989 - 260 pages
...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 oneself by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness... | |
 | David M. Katzman, William M. Tuttle - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 242 pages
...expressed this dilemma. Writing in 1897, Du Bois noted that the Afro-American has a "double-consciousness," a "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."1 Certainly, Jews and... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 430 pages
...Exploring the Need To Be: An Introduction It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness this sense of always looking at one's self through the...of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of the world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness -- an American, a Negro;... | |
 | Wilson Jeremiah Moses - History - 1988 - 354 pages
...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 self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused... | |
 | Stephen Vaughn - History - 1985 - 426 pages
...existed in a white world, WEB Du Bois described this "peculiar sensation, 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... | |
 | Major J. Jones - Religion - 1987 - 150 pages
...Bois spoke of this agony when he wrote: 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 that type of world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness — an American,... | |
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One ever feels his two-ness, — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. 
