Double-consciousness is a collision between antiracist and assimilationist ideas, not an apolitical insight

Evidence

Just as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book met many White folk where they were, at the warring crossroads between segregationist and assimilationist ideas, Du Bois met many Black folk where they were, at the warring crossroads between assimilationist and antiracist ideas. Du Bois believed in both the antiracist concept of cultural relativity—of every person looking at the self from the eyes of his or her own group—and the assimilationist idea of Black individuals seeing themselves from the perspective of White people. In Du Bois’s mind, and for so many like-minded people, this double-desire, or double-consciousness, yielded an inner strife, a conflict between pride in equal Blackness and assimilation into superior Whiteness. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 771

Categorization

• DEFINE: Recasts Du Bois’s double-consciousness in Kendi’s categories: an internal war between antiracist cultural relativity and assimilationist seeing-through-White-eyes.
• XREF: Directly testable against the reader’s goal of placing any argument into the three-way scheme — this is a worked example of applying segregationist/assimilationist/antiracist to a canonical theory.