...the streak of blue above. * By WE Burghardt Du Bois. (Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., London.) " One ever feels his two-ness — an American, a negro...unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. The history of the American negro is...

...watch the streak of blue above. * By WE Burghardt Du Bois. (Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., London.) "One ever feels his two-ness — an American, a negro;...unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. The history of the American negro is...

...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, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Ah ! there's the rub ! Poor Ethiopia...

...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,...unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." It would of course be committing the...

...(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,...unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. It is this double consciousness of the...

...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...unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. 194 195 The history of the American Negro...

...up the African predicament in America: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness. . . . One ever feels his two-ness — an American, a Negro;...unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." By the time he graduated from Fisk in...

...measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels this twoness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts,...unreconciled strivings: two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. (DuBois 1903: 2-3) For DuBois, the American...

...truth is that African Americans have their own problems, one of them being 'double consciousness': "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" (3). With a subtle irony, Du Bois assures...