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She wrote that the household is the first classroom of domination, and spent her career insisting that love, taught properly, is a political practice, not a private feeling.
He coined 'double consciousness' — the sense of always seeing yourself through the eyes of others — and spent sixty years fighting the world that made it necessary.
Connection
W.E.B. Du Bois double consciousness and intersectional analysis bell hooks — hooks extended Du Bois's analysis of how race shapes self-perception to the specific position of Black women, arguing that mainstream feminism and mainstream civil rights thought each captured only part of a Black woman's double, or triple, consciousness.
Ideas
Words
“The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression.”
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”
“One ever feels his twoness — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body.”
Key Moments
1976
Begins decades of university teaching
1981
Publishes Ain't I a Woman
1895
First Black American PhD from Harvard
1903
The Souls of Black Folk published
1909
Co-founded the NAACP
Works
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
The Souls of Black Folk
Black Reconstruction in America