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With new readings of The Call of the Wild and Martin Eden, and many other works, such as the explosive Pacific stories, Reesman reveals that London employed many of the same literary tropes of race used by African American writers of his period: the slave narrative, double-consciousness, the tragic mulatto, and ethnic diaspora.
A NEW BOOK RELEASE 2010
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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.
sunday culture. ithiliana 2010
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So our respondents exhibited a double-consciousness.
Lauren M. Ross: Mistrust and Betrayal: The Far Deeper Costs of the Foreclosure Crisis Lauren M. Ross 2011
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So our respondents exhibited a double-consciousness.
Lauren M. Ross: Mistrust and Betrayal: The Far Deeper Costs of the Foreclosure Crisis Lauren M. Ross 2011
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So our respondents exhibited a double-consciousness.
Lauren M. Ross: Mistrust and Betrayal: The Far Deeper Costs of the Foreclosure Crisis Lauren M. Ross 2011
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He clearly grew tired of battling double-consciousness between the two contrasting institutions; more fatigued from holding back on one network when the other dug his outspoken style.
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
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He clearly grew tired of battling double-consciousness between the two contrasting institutions; more fatigued from holding back on one network when the other dug his outspoken style.
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
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He clearly grew tired of battling double-consciousness between the two contrasting institutions; more fatigued from holding back on one network when the other dug his outspoken style.
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
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He clearly grew tired of battling double-consciousness between the two contrasting institutions; more fatigued from holding back on one network when the other dug his outspoken style.
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
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So our respondents exhibited a double-consciousness.
Lauren M. Ross: Mistrust and Betrayal: The Far Deeper Costs of the Foreclosure Crisis Lauren M. Ross 2011
fakeymcfakeypants commented on the word double-consciousness
"That feeling can take on particular meaning because it disrupts double-consciousness — the term coined by W. E. B. DuBois to explain the necessity of African-Americans to constantly regard themselves through others’ eyes." Traveling While Black
January 5, 2014