"Looking at One's Self Through the Eyes of Others": W. E. B. Du Bois's Photographs for the 1900 Paris Exposition.

From: African American Review | Date: December 22, 2000| Author: Smith, Shown Michelle | Copyright information

In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois describes." Double-consciousness" as the "sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others" (8), and thereby situates a visual model of subjectivity at the center of what he calls "the strange meaning of being black" in the United States at the turn of the century (3). For Du Bois, the African American subject position is a psychological space mediated by a "white supremacist gaze" (hooks, "Glory" 50), and therefore divid...

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