consciousness is practiced within every day interactions, and on an institutional level, it impacts how black people function throughout society. "Black People are legal citizens of the United States with, for the most part, the same legal rights as other citizens. Yet they stand as colonial subjects in relation to the white society." Therefore, while the Black population in the United States are essentially equal to whites under written law, there remain deeply rooted inequities between the races that reinforce double consciousness. Because these differences are not evident under the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, they are an experience. In the Afro-German paradigm Even though the framework of double consciousness can be applied to an African Diaspora and Transnationality, it is important to understand that the nuances of racial dynamics differ from nation to nation. In Germany, for example, the political exigencies enforced by the Third Reich created a more nuanced situation. Tina Campt notes in Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich, the tension for Afro-Germans who "came of age during the totalitarian regime of the Third Reich ... was not necessarily experienced as one of absolute duality or 'twoness.' Rather, it was a contradictory and complexly textured form of identity". Due to the absence of a Black community in Germany, "most Afro-Germans did not have the option of choosing between a Black community or identity and a German identity". They were essentially forced to "occupy a position between a conception of German identity that excluded blackness and a conception of blackness that precluded any identification with Germanness". This means that for Black Germans during the Third Reich, the psychological dilemmas of "two-ness" did not necessarily map onto the double consciousness dynamic W. E. B. Du Bois first identified in 1897. For Black Germans in the early 20th century, there was no stable idea or community of blackness with which they could fully, or even partly, identify. See also Cognitive dissonance Dual consciousness False consciousness Frances Beale Frantz Fanon Generalized other Paul Gilroy Reference group Shulamith Firestone Intersectionality References Further reading Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1993. Print. Ture, Kwame. "Black Power The Politics of Liberation." New York, New York.: Random House, 1967. Print. External links "The Two Nations of Black America" with Henry Louis Gates Jr. – PBS Frontline