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Black Skin, White Masks
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Black Skin, White Masks examines how racial categories enter experience and recognition. The selected encounter raises questions about a body made to carry meanings imposed by others.
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Guided course · Module 12 · Lesson 69
A self seen through a racial order
Du Bois describes double consciousness, and Fanon the meanings a racial order imposes on a body. The lesson distinguishes their accounts and what each makes of the possibility of recognition.