An important concept Du Bois discusses in the first essay is "Double Consciousness", which he describes as "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".
Listen to the passage on "Double Consciousness"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXQq-Gs_Fk4
SANKOFA Reading Group is an auxiliary of Women For Progress of Mississippi, Inc.
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