Word: twoness
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Around the turn of the century, W.E.B. DuBois described the "twoness" felt by blacks, forced by segregation to see themselves both from the inside and from without, as they might appear to a hostile white world. Today the white world is less hostile. But achievement and a limited degree of acceptance have failed to remove all traces of ambiguity from the lives of the black middle class...
...Souls of Black Folk (1903), W.E.B. DuBois wrote of the "twoness" that blacks in the U.S. constantly confront. If "African American" wins wide usage, it may be a small step toward reconciling some of the conflicts and contradictions of black life in this nation...