The document discusses Patricia Williams' experience with double-consciousness as described by W.E.B. Du Bois. Williams felt double-consciousness as a black woman in an oppressive society, viewing herself through the eyes of oppressors who saw her race first before her character. This caused her to feel inadequate and like an outsider, always being defined by her skin color rather than her qualities.

1. Read the transcript of the following talk at
Read the transcript of the following talk at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/audio/pwil
liams.html
by legal scholar Patricia Williams for the W.E.B. Du Bois
Institute. After reading the talk, describe how Williams was
made to experience double-consciousness.
Tell me in your own words by using two paragraphs with 5-8
sentence about Patricia Williams experience with double-
consciousness.
Double-Consciousness a term coined by the late great
Sociologist W.E.B Du Bois meaning a conflict that a black
person experiences in the oppressive society by the oppressors
where some is always observing one's self through the eyes of a
oppressor, and one being measures by oneself in a world that
has looked down upon us. In other words as a black to the
oppressor we will always fall short of and never be equal
enough that even though you're intelligent you're always the
black intelligent person and not just the intelligent person. The
color is always used to make one feel inadequate in sense
according to (Du Bois, 2016)