The Souls of Black Folk - W E B Du Bois - Libros -  - 9798694437103 - 21 de enero de 2021
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The Souls of Black Folk

Book Excerpt: ...youth shrunk into tasteless sycophancy, or into silent hatred of the pale world about them and mocking distrust of everything white; or wasted itself in a bitter cry, Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above. After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, --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 o...

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Publicado 21 de enero de 2021
ISBN13 9798694437103
Páginas 158
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 9 mm   ·   218 g
Lengua Inglés  

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