Ideas of essentialism?

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Posted by: damio Original: 10/25/2007 2:25 PM Comments: 0 eProps: 0 Read Comments Post a Comment Back to Your Xanga Site

Thursday, October 25, 2007

" ... a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, 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. One ever feels his two-ness, ... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."

W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk
"Of Our Spiritual Strivings"

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