W.E.B Article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/strivings-of-the-negro-people/305446/?single_page=true

W.E.B Article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin" rel="nofollow">ine/archive/1897/08/strivin" rel="nofollow">ings-of-the-negro-people/305446/?sin" rel="nofollow">ingle_page=true Although Michelle Alexander and W. E. B. Du Bois are writin" rel="nofollow">ing over a century apart, both are concerned with the impact of discrimin" rel="nofollow">ination on African American identity and self-image. In his famous 1897 essay assigned for this week, Du Bois coin" rel="nofollow">ins the term "double-consciousness" to describe a "sense of always lookin" rel="nofollow">ing at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measurin" rel="nofollow">ing one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in" rel="nofollow">in amused contempt and pity. One feels his two-ness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivin" rel="nofollow">ings; two warrin" rel="nofollow">ing ideals in" rel="nofollow">in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from bein" rel="nofollow">ing torn asunder. The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, this longin" rel="nofollow">ing to attain" rel="nofollow">in self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self in" rel="nofollow">into a better and truer self." In your Discussion Board post, I want you to first describe in" rel="nofollow">in your own words what you thin" rel="nofollow">ink Du Bois (who, you should keep in" rel="nofollow">in min" rel="nofollow">ind, is writin" rel="nofollow">ing durin" rel="nofollow">ing Segregation) means by "double consciousness": why does he claim that the predomin" rel="nofollow">inantly white world gives the African American in" rel="nofollow">individual "no self- consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world"? Then, keepin" rel="nofollow">ing in" rel="nofollow">in min" rel="nofollow">ind the different historical contexts in" rel="nofollow">in which they are writin" rel="nofollow">ing, I want you to show how Du Bois's notion of "double consciousness" might apply to (or perhaps differ from) Michelle Alexander's discussion of the psychological effects of mass in" rel="nofollow">incarceration in" rel="nofollow">in this week's readin" rel="nofollow">ing. To do so, you should focus in" rel="nofollow">in on a specific passage from pp. 161-77 of The New Jim Crow. Your response should be at least 250 words