The exhausting 'racial burden' for victims of everyday racism

Inspired by the concept of 'double consciousness' described by W. E. B. Du Bois, the American pioneer of anti-racist thought, the phrase 'racial burden' has been circulating in the French media for about a decade. It refers to the state of hypervigilance experienced by victims of racism, who are constantly anticipating and defusing everyday microaggressions.

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