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The Souls of Black Folk
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The Souls of Black Folk examines the experience of racial division and double consciousness. Du Bois’s account must remain situated rather than become a description of every divided self.
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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.