Journal Issue: Special Double Issue: African American Double Consciousness
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(1992)
Cross-Cultural Explorations of Du Boisian Double-Consciousness: Jean Rhys and Jean Toomer
(1992) Estes-Hicks, Onita
W. E. B. Du Bois' famous reflections on the "peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others," has almost universally been considered applicable to a plight peculiar to the souls of black people. (Du Bois,1903) Initially constructed in the 1880's when psychology was yet in its infancy in America, this legendary contribution of Du Bois has become known to most readers by an essay appearing in the classic The Souls of Black Folk published in 1903. Du Bois' description of double-consciousness implied that such duality of vision was constant ("always looking at oneself") and shaped by the imperatives of color, a black self forever imprisoned in the negative projections of the white other.
Racial Identity and Political Vision in the Black Press of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1930-1947
(1992) Mitchell, Michael
As the decade of the 1980s drew to a close Brazilians celebrated two centennials which bore a close chronological proximity to one another. In 1988 Brazilians commemorated the one hundredth anniversary of the abolition of slavery; the following year they observed a century's passage since the founding of Brazil's first republic.
Lifting "The Veil": Henry O. Tanner's The Banjo Lesson and The Thankful Poor
(1992) Wilson, Judith
Henry O. Tanner's 1893 painting, The Banjo Lesson, marks a turning point in African American art history. It was Tanner's first masterpiece, the first work in which he demonstrated his control of a range of technical skills unmatched by any previous Black artist. For with Tanner we have the first Afro-American suited for greatness in the visual arts not only by talent and by temperament, but also by training. Indeed his study with the eminent American realist, Thomas Eakins, at the period's leading art school, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, provided him with the most advanced art education then available in the U.S. And subsequently, when a nine-year struggle to survive as an artist in his native land was ended by a generous pair of patrons who enabled him to go abroad, Tanner gained access to Europe's cultural resources an experience then considered indispensable, the final step in an American artist's training. Thus, Tanner probably was the first U.S. Black fully equipped to succeed as a painter in the western tradition.
Ever Feeling One's Twoness: "Double Ideals" and "Double Consciousness" in the Souls of Black Folk
(1992) Allen, Ernest
In his The Souls of Black Folk published at the turn of the century, W. E. B. Du Bois posited the existence of a duality within Afro-American life.