Double consciousness is an African American identity issue that became apparent when racism got really bad. It says that they have one consciousness of how the whites perceive them and another of how they perceive themselves. A double consciousness I would think of as dual personalities, because having a double consciousness is a similar concept. If you are viewing things in two different lights or are viewed in two opposite ways, it is as if you are two completely different people. In some way or another I believe everyone has a double consciousness, because the way a person views themselves is usually different than what the outside world thinks of them. Other people mostly agreed that it can also be dual personalities or multiple personalities, maybe not to the point where a person is “crazy”, but enough to where it’s apparent.
