Meaning of double consciousness | Babel Free

Definitions

The awareness of an African American of having two selves, their inward self and the self, created by how white people see them.

uncountable

Examples

“Double-consciousness is the African American’s awareness of possessing two souls: an outward self based largely on how whites perceive him and an inward self that he comes to realize as his truer self.”

“Postcolonial theorists often describe the colonial subject as having a double consciousness or double vision, in other words, a consciousness or way of perceiving the world that is divided between two antagonistic worlds, a consciousness or way of perceiving the world that is divided between two antagonistic cultures: that of the colonizer and that of the indigenous community.”

CEFR level