What are you, anyway?
Abigail Curtis
Belfast, ME
I am an American mutt! Dominican, middle eastern, white. I don’t think these words are said with hostility, but they always make me stop and think.
A peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness
Carolyn Ash
Denver, CO
In the opening chapter of his book The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois describes double consciousness as follows:
“One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
