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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mestiza Double Consciousness is a term coined by Peruvian-American Sociologist Sylvanna Falcón in her explanatory study entitled Mestiza Double Consciousness: The Voices of Afro-Peruvian Women on Gendered Racism. The term explains how Afro-Peruvian women have become engaged in activism and organized against racism, how they have become aware of their social positions, and how, as an outcome, they have formed a different consciousness that did not previously exist, which Falcón calls the Mestiza Double Consciousness. Sylvanna Falcón conducted qualitative research with three Afro-Peruvian women participating in the World Conference Against Racism 2001. From her research, Falcón tries to understand the lives of Sofía, Mónica, and Martha by merging together a gendered view of W.E.B. Du Bois double consciousness and an expanded view of Gloria E. Anzaldúa s mestiza consciousness frameworks. Therefore, from the merging of these frameworks surges the mestiza double consciousness concept. Du Bois double consciousness alone provides an understanding of race relations in the United States from the perspective of the racialized.
