Du Bois described the Negro as ‘born with a veil… always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.‘

Evidence

Double Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

XREF: connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; The Negro’s fear is of his own unknown self being discovered — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 549; The Antillean’s late-realized self-recognition as Negro triggers Negrophobia and neurosis (+2 more)

The Antillean’s late-realized self-recognition as Negro triggers Negrophobia and neurosis (similarity 0.82)
Du Bois’s schoolyard rejection crystallized his concept of the racial veil (similarity 0.81)
Double consciousness fractures identity by measuring oneself through others’ contemptuous eyes. (similarity 0.81)
The Negro’s fear is of his own unknown self being discovered (similarity 0.79)
The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal (similarity 0.79)
The neurosis precedes and motivates the racial obsession, not the reverse (similarity 0.78)