Central to the arguments found in both W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk and Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson, is the notion that the African American individual senses a “double consciousness,” a phrase coined by Du Bois to describe the lag, or discrepancy felt by the black man between how he perceives himself and how he is perceived by society at large. Read More »
Pudd'nhead Wilson
