Video: Double Consciousness (Akinyela, 2006)

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by Stephen Madigan

Makungu Akinyela introduces African-American activist W.E.B. Du Bois' ideas of double consciousness - where in the colonized person taking on the language and meaning of the colonizer becomes more and more alienated from their own culture/people.

Makungu Akinyela introduces African-American activist W.E.B. Du Bois' ideas of double consciousness - where in the colonized person taking on the language and meaning of the colonizer becomes more and more alienated from their own culture/people.

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