Introduction
DuBois occupied a bewildering range of positions, both on the domestic front of African American politics and on the international front of the anticolonial politics of the emergent Third World.Du Bois explored and revealed the concept of double coinciousness in his book “The Souls of Black Folk”, which was published in 1903.he explained the term double concioussness to observe the thought process of both the Negro and an American.Du Bois has introduced this term to study the physcology of African American people living in the united states.he believes that double consciousness comes from African American viewing themselves through the eyes of the society.he states that sincle the black community have lived in a society that has devalued them and it has made it difficult for them to unify their black identity with the American identity.the concept of double concioussness enables the African Americans to view themselves from peoples point of view.in his book he has talked about the race relations in the united staes and talks in detail about it.he mentions in the book
“The sense of looking at one’s self through the eyes of others”.
Discussion
Double consciousness
Du bois has describe the term double consciousness as a process of describing an individual indentity.double consciousness describes the several facets of a human identity.Du Bois has used the concept of double consciousness as a theoretical model for understanding the physco social divisions in the American society.di bois describes double consciousness as a world which yoilds no self consciousness, but only enables the human to see themselves from the eye of society and other people surrounding him.it enables the people to see themelves from others point of view and measuring ones soul by the tape of the world.one ever feels his tow-ness.an merican, a negro, two warring sould, two thoughts