The "double-consciousness" referred to by Du Bois is:

A. intended only as a metaphor.

B. simultaneously seeing oneself both as an individual and as a member of one's race.

C. experienced only by the educated elite.
D. an idea founded upon Stoic philosophy.

E. an idea founded upon the views of the British Empiricists.


Answer: B

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