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Du Bois — Double consciousness and seeing oneself through others’ eyes

Is seeing oneself through both one’s own and a dominant society’s eyes only a wound of division, or also an epistemic resource?

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Du Bois names double consciousness as the conflict of experiencing oneself through one’s own standpoint and the appraising gaze of a racist society.

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  • Double Consciousness

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: §1 The Trajectory of the Concept; The Souls of Black Folk passage

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1903 CE · 1903

The Souls of Black Folk records the inner division of racialized life as a social and epistemic problem.

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