 | Richard W. Rees - History - 2007 - 192 pages
...two incommensurate impulses, is perhaps the best-known statement on the question of black identity: "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... | |
 | Jacqueline Scott, A. Todd Franklin - Social Science - 2012 - 290 pages
...others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in 51 amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness — 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... | |
 | Regina Jennings - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 297 pages
...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... | |
 | George Bornstein - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 206 pages
...confluence of tradition in its very terminology. Du Bois emphasizes the doubleness of nation and race: One ever feels his twoness, - 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... | |
 | Amy Plantinga Pauw, Serene Jones - Religion - 2006 - 308 pages
...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; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from... | |
 | Jennifer Ritterhouse - Social Science - 2006 - 320 pages
...eyes of others, 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 unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from... | |
 | Adrienne D. Dixson, Celia K. Rousseau, Celia Rousseau Anderson - Education - 2006 - 306 pages
...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... | |
 | Joe R. Feagin - Psychology - 2006 - 388 pages
...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... | |
 | James H. Harris - Religion - 2002 - 412 pages
...of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One even feels his twoness — 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Brown-Guillory - African diaspora in literature - 2006 - 216 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
