Race+Matters

Race Matters

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and thwell. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“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

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"The moderns, then, after they have abolished slavery, have three prejudices to contend against, which are less easy to attack and far less easy to conquer than the mere fact of servitude: the prejudice of the master, the prejudice of the race, and the prejudice of color." (Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America pg. 415)



The American Other