This article originally ran on Feb. 15, 2019. As Black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois told it, the story of one of the most revolutionary concepts in American life began more than 100 years ago in a wooden ...

When W.E.B. Du Bois analyzed the concept of African-American “double-consciousness” in the late 19th century, he spurred more than a century’s worth of debate about the condition of African-Americans ...

Seemingly contradictory realities can be true at the same time. Double consciousness. The idea was first popularized by African American writer, thinker and activist W.E.B. Du Bois in 1897. He ...

In 1903 W.E.B. DuBois’ seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk, introduces the term “double consciousness” to explain a feeling of embodying multiple social identities. For more than a century the term ...

In the fall of 2023, EdSurge Research invited Black women educators to engage in a community-based, participatory research project and tell their own stories about their classroom experiences. All ...