SIGS Talk: The Dignity of Repose: Or, W. E. B. Du Bois's Thought of "Double-Consciousness" from Dr. Nahum Chandler
SIGS Talk: The Dignity of Repose: Or, W. E. B. Du Bois's Thought of "Double-Consciousness" from Dr. Nahum Chandler
Nov 6, 2025
4:45 - 6:45pm
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Distinguished Advisory Fellow for SUA within the Office of the President
Distinguished SIGS Research Fellow
Nahum Dimitri Chandler is the author of five books, most recently The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W. E. B. DuBois and Max Weber in Correspondence from Duke University Press, October 2025. He is Associate Editor of the journal CR: The New Centennial Review and a faculty member in the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, since 2011.
The Dignity of Repose: Or, W. E. B. Du Bois's Thought of "Double-Consciousness"
Reflections of a scholar
This is a lecture on W. E. B. Du Bois's thought of "double-consciousness" as first given in his June 1897 essay "Strivings of the Negro People" and later presented as the opening chapter of his classic text, The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches published in April 1903: "the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world."
"After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world..../t is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness....One ever feels his two-ness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
In W. E. B. Du Bois "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (Chicago: McClurg and Co., 1903), 2nd edition, June 1903 (p. 3; chapter one, paragraph three).
Distinguished Advisory Fellow for SUA within the Office of the President
Distinguished SIGS Research Fellow
Nahum Dimitri Chandler is the author of five books, most recently The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W. E. B. DuBois and Max Weber in Correspondence from Duke University Press, October 2025. He is Associate Editor of the journal CR: The New Centennial Review and a faculty member in the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, since 2011.
The Dignity of Repose: Or, W. E. B. Du Bois's Thought of "Double-Consciousness"
Reflections of a scholar
This is a lecture on W. E. B. Du Bois's thought of "double-consciousness" as first given in his June 1897 essay "Strivings of the Negro People" and later presented as the opening chapter of his classic text, The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches published in April 1903: "the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world."
"After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world..../t is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness....One ever feels his two-ness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
In W. E. B. Du Bois "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (Chicago: McClurg and Co., 1903), 2nd edition, June 1903 (p. 3; chapter one, paragraph three).
SIGS talk by Dr. Nahum Dimitri Chandler
Distinguished Advisory Fellow for SUA within the Office of the President
Distinguished SIGS Research Fellow
Nahum Dimitri Chandler is the author of five books, most recently The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W. E. B. DuBois and Max Weber in Correspondence from Duke University Press, October 2025. He is Associate Editor of the journal CR: The New Centennial Review and a faculty member in the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, since 2011.
The Dignity of Repose: Or, W. E. B. Du Bois's Thought of "Double-Consciousness"
Reflections of a scholar
This is a lecture on W. E. B. Du Bois's thought of "double-consciousness" as first given in his June 1897 essay "Strivings of the Negro People" and later presented as the opening chapter of his classic text, The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches published in April 1903: "the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world."
"After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world..../t is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness....One ever feels his two-ness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
In W. E. B. Du Bois "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (Chicago: McClurg and Co., 1903), 2nd edition, June 1903 (p. 3; chapter one, paragraph three).
Distinguished Advisory Fellow for SUA within the Office of the President
Distinguished SIGS Research Fellow
Nahum Dimitri Chandler is the author of five books, most recently The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W. E. B. DuBois and Max Weber in Correspondence from Duke University Press, October 2025. He is Associate Editor of the journal CR: The New Centennial Review and a faculty member in the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, since 2011.
The Dignity of Repose: Or, W. E. B. Du Bois's Thought of "Double-Consciousness"
Reflections of a scholar
This is a lecture on W. E. B. Du Bois's thought of "double-consciousness" as first given in his June 1897 essay "Strivings of the Negro People" and later presented as the opening chapter of his classic text, The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches published in April 1903: "the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world."
"After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world..../t is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness....One ever feels his two-ness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
In W. E. B. Du Bois "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (Chicago: McClurg and Co., 1903), 2nd edition, June 1903 (p. 3; chapter one, paragraph three).