"double consciousness" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2008, Danny Sexton, “Lifting the Veil: Revision and Double-Consciousness in Rita Dove’s The Darker Face of the Earth”, in Callaloo, page 778",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1999, Lois Tyson, chapter 11, in Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, page 368",
          "text": "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.",
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