PHI 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Double Consciousness
26 Apr 2019
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A literal reference to the darker skin of blacks: a physical demarcation of difference. White people"s lack of clarity for seeing blacks as true americans . Black people"s lack of clarity for seeing themselves outside of what white. I think this paragraph means that the person is too focused on how others are viewing them. [l]ooking at one"s self through the eyes of others means that you already have your own conscious positively and then you are thinking about what others think about you. It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one"s self through the eyes of others, of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity . Living in a society that sees you as other , judges you and devalues you.
