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I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother’s employer’s family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home.

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May 3, 2024

I think that often in the United States we’re very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

May 3, 2024

I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother’s employer’s family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home.

Jesmyn Ward

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I am grateful to the activists and women who created the Black Lives Matter movement because I feel like they let me know I wasn’t crazy.

I think that often in the United States we’re very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

I think that often in the United States we’re very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

I am grateful to the activists and women who created the Black Lives Matter movement because I feel like they let me know I wasn’t crazy.

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I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother’s employer’s family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home.

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