This article engages in a theoretical discussion and application of Du Boisian double consciousness to understand the formation of the Muslim American self. Du Boisian double consciousness, and its three elements (the Veil, Twoness, and Second Sight) are used to understand phenomenological processes of Muslim American self-formation as being situated within and conditioned by structural contexts of racialization. By drawing on critical scholarship that highlights the operation of the Muslim racial project in contemporary U.S. contexts, I show how double consciousness emerges through the Othering of Muslim Americans at the macro, meso, and micro levels of society, which then defines them as outside of the U.S. national imaginary, and denies them their equal civic status as citizens of the state. By utilizing double consciousness to understand the Muslim American self as it is embedded in racialized U.S. contexts, this article fills a crucial gap in the literature by theoretically expanding on racialized processes of Muslim American identity formation in the racialized contexts of the United States.

本文对杜波依斯的双重意识进行理论探讨和应用，以理解美国穆斯林自我的形成。杜波依斯的双重意识及其三个要素（面纱、双重性和第二眼）被用来理解美国穆斯林自我形成的现象学过程，因为它位于种族化的结构背景内并受其制约。通过强调穆斯林种族项目在当代美国语境中的运作的批判性学术研究，我展示了双重意识如何通过社会的宏观、中观和微观层面的穆斯林美国人的异化而出现，然后将它们定义为外部美国的国家想象，并否认他们作为国家公民的平等公民地位。