The following project situates Dr. William E Cross’s original (1971) Black identity (or Nigrescence) development model as an element for conceptualization jointly with Patricia Hill Collins’s (1990) matrix of domination theory as a point of distinction to meaningfully reflect on sensations of double consciousness as experienced in the life of a young contemporary BlackAmerican woman living in the United States. Through autoethnographically processing the effects that existing in predominantly White spaces has on the double consciousness of young Black women and thus Black women’s (individual and collective) creative expression, the work strives to center the notion of wake work alongside Black womanist aims of contributing to a paradigmatic shift that emphasizes the value of dialogue and concrete experience as criteria for meaning. To the point of intellectual Black womanist thinking, for which I argued in this paper, I come to understand just how much my own Black identity development and double consciousness is multilayeredly informed and entangled with my other intersectionally marginalized identities as a Black woman from impoverished means whose Nigrescence has developed during my time of schooling in four various predominately White environments.