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Double consciousness is the dual self-perception [1] experienced by subordinated or colonized groups in an oppressive society.The term and the idea were first published in W. E. B. Du Bois's autoethnographic work, The Souls of Black Folk in 1903, in which he described the African American experience of double consciousness, including his own.
This double standard led, he argued, to "twoness" and "double consciousness." The twoness was the experience of being "black" and "American," where the two were treated as contradictory. Double consciousness followed in two forms. The first was of the experience of being seen from the perspective of white supremacy and anti-black racism. It was ...
W. E. B. Du Bois's double-consciousness depiction of black existence has come to epitomize the existential determinants of black self-consciousness. These alienated forms of black consciousness have been categorically defined in African-American cultural studies as: The Negro Problem, The Color Line, Black Experience, Black Power, The Veil of ...
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness is a 1993 history book about a distinct black Atlantic culture that incorporated elements from African, American, British, and Caribbean cultures.
In The Souls of Black Folk, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois highlighted the concepts of consciousness or woke-ness in relation to the concept of double consciousness (a "two-ness" of competing thoughts, ideals, efforts, and psyches – competition between one's "Negro"-ness and one's "American"-ness) in African Americans. [22]
Young Asian Americans encouraged one another to confront the anti-Blackness in their own families and communities. With nationwide protests against police brutality, rising incidents of anti-Asian ...
Sylvanna Falcón conducted qualitative research with Afro-Peruvian women participating in the World Conference Against Racism 2001. From her research, Falcón tries to understand the lives of three participants—Sofía, Mónica, and Martha—by merging a gendered view of W.E.B. Du Bois' double consciousness and an expanded view of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mestiza consciousness frameworks.
Scholarship addressing internalized racism has existed long before the emergence of the terminology itself. In 1903, African American civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the existence of "double-consciousness", or "this sense of 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," to ...