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Writing Ethnicity, Spring 2007 In “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” the first chapter of his The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois famously presents the concept of “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” (5). In an essay of 3-5 pages, relate DuBois’s idea of “double-consciousness” to one of the other essays we have read (Hurston’s “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” Noda’s “Growing Up Asian in America,” or Rich’s “Split at the Root”). |