"It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil."() Double Consciousness is an idea that William Edward Burghardt first used in the 1897 article of the quote previously mentioned, The Atlantic. Double Consciousness describes the individual sensation of feeling as though your identity is divided into several parts, making it difficult or impossible to have one unified identity.()W.E.B Dubois’s perspective on double consciousness relates to African-Americans. Dubois believed that White Americans have one standpoint of African Americans. On the contrary, we as African Americans have our own society, but we have to deal …show more content…
e mind is everything, what you think you become, and in Zora Neale Hurston’s, Their Eyes Were Watching God novel, the main character Janie Crawford struggled searching for identity among the conflicting commands during the post reconstruction era and herself(add relationships in here) …show more content…
Joe and Janie head off to a town that is run by all blacks because Joe has big entrepreneurial plans and wants to make a fortune.“Ain’t got no Mayor! Well, who tells y’all what to do?”(Chp.5, PG.41).Joe Starks did not view himself as a second-class citizen but more of a higher power. He and Janie lived in a huge two-story house which were bigger than the other houses in the town.Joe also owned majority of the property in the town, owned every business, similar to white supremacy. Janie never really had a say of what went on in the town either, she worked in one of the stores Joe Starks had owned. One of the main conflicts of their relationship had to do with double consciousness, constantly battling with struggling to live life like the dominant race and having to deal with their own racial issues. Joe felt equality between him and the white race, which played a part in the ending of their marriage and Janie’s new quest to find