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How do the Mask and the Veil compare?
Mask: Hides true feelings. | Veil: Separates Black and White Americans.
What is the effect of the color line?
Effect: Unequal access to resources, opportunities, and social participation.
What is the effect of double consciousness?
Effect: Alienation but also a unique perspective that fuels resistance.
What is one cause of alienation?
Cause: Racism.
What is the Color Line?
Systemic racial segregation and discrimination dividing American society.
Define 'The Mask' in African American studies.
Facade adopted to hide true feelings from a racist society.
What does 'The Veil' symbolize?
Separation and lack of understanding between Black and white Americans.
Define Double Consciousness.
Internal conflict of seeing oneself through one's own eyes and a racist society's eyes.
What is 'Twoness'?
Du Bois's term for feeling both Black and American, often with conflicting expectations.
What is alienation in the context of racism?
Feeling like an outsider, never fully accepted by mainstream society.
Define internal conflict (psychological impact).
Constant struggle to reconcile one's identity with others' perceptions.
What are coping mechanisms?
Strategies to maintain dignity in a racist society.
Define agency in context of double consciousness.
Sense of determination to resist and overcome limitations.
Define resilience in context of double consciousness.
Adaptation and navigation of challenges in a racist society.