Assimilationism and Respectability Politics, perhaps the same theory when bound to the black body, are both relative to the concept Dr. W.E.B DuBois coined as “double consciousness”. However, his claim “One ever feels his twoness, — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder,” can be … Continue reading Respectability Politics and the Black Body