"Up From "Twoness

Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of W.E.B. Dubois's Concept of Double Consciousness

Bibliographic Data

ID8895938
AuthorsDavid W Blight (corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume21
Issue3
Pages301-320
Publication date1990-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cras-021-03-02
OpenAlexW2065705866
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited16

Even the educated colored: the long school people, the doctors, the teachers, the paper-writers and businessmen had a hard row to hoe. In addition to having to use their heads to get ahead, they had the weight of the whole race sitting there. You needed two heads for that. Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987 A nation's identity is derived from the ways in which history has, as it were, counterpointed certain opposite potentialities; the ways in which it lifts this counterpoint to a unique style of civilization, or lets it disintegrate into mere contradiction. Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society, 1950

Aesthetics · Art · Civilization · Consciousness · Contradiction · Counterpoint · Double consciousness · Epistemology · Identity (music · Literature · Meaning (existential · Psychoanalysis · Race (biology · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society