ENGLISH 3A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Meritocracy, Iroquois, Double Consciousness
27 Oct 2017
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Dubois: (cid:498)double consciousness(cid:499) this american world,- a world which yields him no true self- consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. One ever finds this two-ness, - an american, a negro; two souls, two thoughts; two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark. Sitting in back of the bus, (cid:498)blacks coffee(cid:499) or (cid:498)blacks toilets(cid:499), etc. Jim crowe regulations-> he had to go through these. The problem of the 21st century is going to be the racial line. Mirror allows baby to see itself as a (cid:498)whole being(cid:499) for the first time. It does not impose itself on me; it is, rather, a definitive structuring of the self and the world- definitive because it (cid:498)and all these movements are made not out of habit but out of implicit knowledge. How can this kind of self- consciousness be (cid:498)solely negating(cid:499) activity for fanon and the gift of (cid:498)second- sight(cid:499) for dubois? his bodily schema.
