double consciousness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_consciousness https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5299988 Originally, double consciousness was specifically the psychological challenge African Americans experienced of "always looking at one's self through the eyes" of a racist white society, and "measuring oneself by the means of a nation that looked back in contempt". The term also referred to Du Bois's experiences of reconciling his African heritage with an upbringing in a European-dominated society. More recently, the concept of double consciousness has been expanded to other situations of social inequality, notably women living in patriarchal societies. The internal conflict experienced by subordinated or colonized groups in an oppressive society. The term and the idea were first published in by W. E. B. Du Bois's autoethnographic work, The Souls of Black Folk in 1897, in which he described the African American experience of double consciousness, including his own. double vision