Du Bois framed the race struggle as merging dual selves into one

Evidence

Blacks must therefore reckon with the fact that “the history of the American Negro is the history of this strife—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self,” Du Bois wrote. “He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 770

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘merging into a truer self’ frame is assimilationist in structure — ties to the reader’s task of spotting assimilationism even in beloved antiracist figures.