African American Identity

African American Identity
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 472
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ISBN-10 : 9780739171752
ISBN-13 : 0739171755
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis African American Identity by : Jas M. Sullivan

Jas M. Sullivan and Ashraf M. Esmail’s African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience is a collection which makes use of multiple perspectives across the social sciences to address complex issues of race and identity. The contributors tackle questions about what African American racial identity means, how we may go about quantifying it, what the factors are in shaping identity development, and what effects racial identity has on psychological, political, educational, and health-related behavior. African American Identity aims to continue the conversation, rather than provide a beginning or an end. It is an in-depth study which uses quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods to explore the relationship between racial identity and psychological well-being, effects on parents and children, physical health, and related educational behavior. From these vantage points, Sullivan and Esmail provide a unique opportunity to further our understanding, extend our knowledge, and continue the debate.

Becoming Black

Becoming Black
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 0822332884
ISBN-13 : 9780822332886
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Becoming Black by : Michelle M. Wright

DIVA theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany./div

Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North

Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 9780807875032
ISBN-13 : 0807875031
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North by : Patrick Rael

Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North? Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest and sense of racial identity forged by both famous and lesser-known black leaders in antebellum America and illuminates the ideas that united these activists across a wide array of divisions. In so doing, he reveals the roots of the arguments that still resound in the struggle for justice today. Mining sources that include newspapers and pamphlets of the black national press, speeches and sermons, slave narratives and personal memoirs, Rael recovers the voices of an extraordinary range of black leaders in the first half of the nineteenth century. He traces how these activists constructed a black American identity through their participation in the discourse of the public sphere and how this identity in turn informed their critiques of a nation predicated on freedom but devoted to white supremacy. His analysis explains how their place in the industrializing, urbanizing antebellum North offered black leaders a unique opportunity to smooth over class and other tensions among themselves and successfully galvanize the race against slavery.

African Or American?

African Or American?
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780252078538
ISBN-13 : 0252078535
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis African Or American? by : Leslie M. Alexander

The struggle for black identity in antebellum New York

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 461
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ISBN-10 : 9781541616585
ISBN-13 : 1541616588
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by : Beverly Daniel Tatum

The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America. Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to discuss racial issues? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about communicating across racial and ethnic divides and pursuing antiracism. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand dynamics of race and racial inequality in America.

The Concept of Self

The Concept of Self
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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9780814338315
ISBN-13 : 0814338313
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis The Concept of Self by : Richard L. Allen

The Concept of Self examines the historical basis for the widely misunderstood ideas of how African Americans think of themselves individually, and how they relate to being part of a group that has been subjected to challenges of their very humanity.

Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity

Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 9781438484815
ISBN-13 : 143848481X
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity by : Sherrow O. Pinder

In Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity, Sherrow O. Pinder explores the ways in which the late singer's racial identification process problematizes conceptualizations of race and the presentation of blackness that reduces blacks to a bodily mark. Pinder is particularly interested in how Michael Jackson simultaneously performs his racial identity and posits it against strict binary racial definitions, neither black nor white. While Jackson's self-fashioning deconstructs and challenges the corporeal notions of "natural bodies" and fixed identities, negative readings of the King of Pop fuel epithets such as "weird" or "freak," subjecting him to a form of antagonism that denies the black body its self-determination. Thus, for Jackson, racial identification becomes a deeply ambivalent process, which leads to the fragmentation of his identity into plural identities. Pinder shows how Jackson as a racialized subject is discursively confined to a "third space," a liminal space of ambivalence.

Black and White Racial Identity

Black and White Racial Identity
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Publisher : Praeger
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9780275946128
ISBN-13 : 0275946126
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Black and White Racial Identity by : Janet E. Helms

This book examines the major theories of Black and White racial identity. Moreover, theoretical perspectives that were originally developed to describe social fomentation have been updated and expanded to explain the role of racial identity in counseling dyads, social relationships, and groups. Measures for assessing racial identity are described. Original research addresses the relationship of racial identity to other personality characteristics such as value orientations, decision-making styles and counseling process variables such as satisfaction, counselor strategies, and client reactions. Part 1 presents basic racial identity theory and measurement issues as they pertain to individuals and intergroup functioning. Ideally this material will be useful to persons who are seeking a basic introduction to Black and White racial identity theory. Part 2 introduces empirical attempts to examine the correlates of racial identity. This section is primarily intended for the reader who is interested in generating research questions and/or evaluating some of those that already have been generated. Part 3 includes speculative and empirical chapters that study the influence of racial identity on everyday interactions. This material also describes the influence of racial identity attitudes on various kinds of counseling interactions. The final chapter presents models for promoting identity development. This book should appeal to anyone interested in the social and behavioral sciences, including psychiatry, social work, and cross cultural psychology; nursing and education.

One Drop

One Drop
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9780807073360
ISBN-13 : 0807073369
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis One Drop by : Yaba Blay

Challenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality to understand the diversity of what it means to be Black in the US and around the world What exactly is Blackness and what does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who determines who is Black and who is not? Who’s Black, who’s not, and who cares? In the United States, a Black person has come to be defined as any person with any known Black ancestry. Statutorily referred to as “the rule of hypodescent,” this definition of Blackness is more popularly known as the “one-drop rule,” meaning that a person with any trace of Black ancestry, however small or (in)visible, cannot be considered White. A method of social order that began almost immediately after the arrival of enslaved Africans in America, by 1910 it was the law in almost all southern states. At a time when the one-drop rule functioned to protect and preserve White racial purity, Blackness was both a matter of biology and the law. One was either Black or White. Period. Has the social and political landscape changed one hundred years later? One Drop explores the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference. Featuring the perspectives of 60 contributors representing 25 countries and combining candid narratives with striking portraiture, this book provides living testimony to the diversity of Blackness. Although contributors use varying terms to self-identify, they all see themselves as part of the larger racial, cultural, and social group generally referred to as Black. They have all had their identity called into question simply because they do not fit neatly into the stereotypical “Black box”—dark skin, “kinky” hair, broad nose, full lips, etc. Most have been asked “What are you?” or the more politically correct “Where are you from?” throughout their lives. It is through contributors’ lived experiences with and lived imaginings of Black identity that we can visualize multiple possibilities for Blackness.

Black Behind the Ears

Black Behind the Ears
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 0822340372
ISBN-13 : 9780822340379
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Behind the Ears by : Ginetta E. B. Candelario

An innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States.