SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: An American Dilemma, Essentialism, Chiropractic
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Dubois: the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the colour-line . How does it feel to be a problem: being a problem is a strange experience, - peculiar even for one who has never been anything else . Recognition of difference: in a wee wooden schoolhouse, something put it into the boys" and girls" heads to buy gorgeous visiting cards-ten cents a package-and exchange. The exchange was merry, till one girl, a tall newcomer, refused my card,-refused it peremptorily, with a glance. Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that i was different from the others : fanon in france look mom, a negro! . Double-consciousness: a sense of measuring one"s self through the eyes of others: a sense that judgements are made based on essentialist understandings, combination of how i see myself and how others see me. Had not votes made war and emancipated millions? .
