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Double consciousness

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In Du Bois, double consciousness is a divided relation to oneself under racial judgment. The reading connects that pressure with Black American belonging and material opportunities, without making the division a fixed racial destiny.

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  • Guided course · Module 12 · Lesson 69

    A self seen through a racial order

    Du Bois describes double consciousness, and Fanon the meanings a racial order imposes on a body. The lesson distinguishes their accounts and what each makes of the possibility of recognition.

  • Guided course · Module 12 · Lesson 76

    Land, knowledge and the right to continue a world

    Leanne Betasamosake Simpson connects living knowledge with land, responsibility and authority over learning. The module checkpoint asks who can take part in shaping an account, and what must change for that participation to matter.