Stuart Hall, Jamaican-British sociologist is one of the earliest scholars on 'Double Consciousness'.
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W. E. B. DuBois uses the concepts of ‘the veil’ and ‘double-consciousness’ to explain the peculiar conditions within which African Americans find themselves in the United States and the specific tools at their disposal to understand (and hopefully dismantle) those conditions.
Essential Reading:
W.E.B. DuBois ‘Of Our Spiritual Strivings’ in The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. DuBois ‘Of the Faith of the Fathers’ in The Souls of Black Folk