The origin of the term โ€œdouble consciousnessโ€

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868โ€“1963) was an African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and public intellectual. He was a pioneering advocate for racial justice and one of the principal architects of the early National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His concept of โ€œdouble consciousnessโ€ transformed the study of race, identity, and American …

As for me and my house

A young Barack Obama, who would one day be the first Black President of the United States of America. It was nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who coined the phrase, โ€œa long obedience in the same direction.โ€ In Beyond Good and Evil, he argues that the enduring achievements of civilisation arise through sustained discipline not fleeting inspiration.  …