Word: consciousnessã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...America. West cited jazz great Louis Armstrong and rapper Tupac Shakur as examples of this feeling of displacement in modern times. Armstrong wore a smile onstage, but he was racked with the knowledge that he could never be a fully-integrated part of society. This “double-consciousness??—the struggle of identifying oneself as both American and black and leading a paradoxial existence as “human, modern, American and New World African”—was a commonly recapitulated theme in the lecture...