ABSTRACT
American music education has a significant racial inequality abyss. Researchers have analyzed the demographic profile of the field of music education and used the data to conduct case studies to suggest that marginalized populations may encounter barriers after gaining admittance to pre-service music university programs. White cultural hegemony continues to pervade the multicultural music education movement. Du Bois's framework of double-consciousness has been used as a lens to understand how Black people in a White-dominated society view themselves in relationship to the world they encounter. The weight of being African American is deeply embedded in the social context of American "slavery, segregation, and fueled by contemporary racial disparities and the ongoing experience of prejudice, discrim in ation, and inequality". Double-consciousness is theorized as the psychological feeling that African Americans experience in viewing oneself as both African American and European American.
