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Double-Consciousness Affects Black People In The Workplace
"'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,' W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in The Souls of Black Folk."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mayarichard-craven/2024/02/27/double-consciousness-affects-black-people-in-the-workplace/
“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,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in The Souls of Black Folk.
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“I was a lower-middle-class mocha-hued kid who couldn’t pass, but I taught myself to code-switch and adapt to the rules of the class who ruled. I felt like I’d won that jackpot when eyes widened as people tried to reconcile my vocabulary”