Browsing through the catalogue for Headstrong, the new Jean-Michel Basquiat show opening on Friday at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, I couldn’t help but think of the famous sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois’s concept of “double consciousness.” Du Bois had invented the term to capture how Black Americans—living under unique psychic, social, and cultural pressures—had to be cognizant of society’s hostility toward them while also nurturing their own authentic sense of self. In order to manage this duality, this awareness of being watched while having to watch themselves, Du Bois posited that Black people had to develop two souls. Thus the title of his most famous book, The Souls of Black Folk.