Black and White Self-esteem
Author: Morris Rosenberg
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13:
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The African Personality in America
Author: Kobi K. K. Kambon
Publisher: Nubian Nation Publications
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780963396303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonality, Roles, and Social Behavior
Author: W. Ickes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1461394694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonality and Roles: Sources of Regularities in Social Behavior For behavioral scientists, whether they identify primarily with the science of psychology or with that of sociology, there may be no challenge greater than that of discovering regularities and consistencies in social behavior. After all, it is such regularities and consistencies that lend predictability to the behavior of individuals in social contexts-in particular, to those events that constitute dyadic interactions and group processes. In the search for behavioral consistencies, two theoretical constructs have emerged as guiding principles: personality and roles. The theoretical construct of personality seeks to understand regularities and consistencies in social behavior in terms of relatively stable traits, enduring dispositions, and other propensities (for example, needs, motives, and attitudes) that are thought to reside within individuals. Because it focuses primarily on the features of individuals, the construct of personality is fundamentally psychological in nature. By contrast, the theoretical construct of roles seeks to understand regularities and consistencies in social behavior in terms of the directive influence of coherent sets of rules and prescriptions that are provided by the interpersonal, occupational, and societal categories of which individuals are continuing members. Because it focuses primarily on features of social structures, the construct of roles is fundamentally sociological in nature.
Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity
Author: Jas M. Sullivan
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2016-09-07
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1438462980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the broad range of attitudes Black people employ to make sense of their Blackness, this volume offers the latest research on racial identity. The first section explores meaning-making, or the importance of holding one type of racial-cultural identity as compared to another. It looks at a wide range of topics, including stereotypes, spirituality, appearance, gender and intersectionalities, masculinity, and more. The second section examines the different expressions of internalized racism that arise when the pressure of oppression is too great, and includes such topics as identity orientations, self-esteem, colorism, and linked fate. Grounded in psychology, the research presented here makes the case for understanding Black identity as wide ranging in content, subject to multiple interpretations, and linked to both positive mental health as well as varied forms of internalized racism.
The Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and Health
Author: Brenda Major
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 0190243473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStigma leads to poorer health. In The Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and Health, leading scholars identify stigma mechanisms that operate at multiple levels to erode the health of stigmatized individuals and, collectively, produce health disparities. This book provides unique insights concerning the link between stigma and health across various types of stigma and groups.
Dimensions of Blackness
Author: Jas M. Sullivan
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2018-10-09
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1438471610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA multidimensional perspective captures the complexities of African American racial identity. While the dynamics of racial oppression limit the range of attitudes blacks may construct and hold, their basic humanity introduces additional attitudinal variance that is nearly boundless. Rather than claim it is possible to conceptualize and measure every iteration of blackness, modern social theorists such as Robert Sellers and William Cross Jr. contend that one should systematically sample the unmanageable range of different identity frames found among blacks. In Dimensions of Blackness, the authors suggest there is no single, solitary way to express black racial identity. They move away from blackness as binary and instead reveal what happens when black racial identity is conceptualized with difference of opinion. Using a multidimensional perspective this book explores whether black racial identity differences among blacks influence political attitudes and behavior.
Sister Citizen
Author: Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-09-20
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0300165412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVFrom a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefs/div
The Relationship Between Racial Identity and Self-esteem Among African-Americans
Author: Maxwell C. Manning (Jr.)
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 236
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Author: William E. Cross
Publisher:
Published: 1991-12-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780877229490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this controversial and path-breaking book, William E. Cross, Jr., presents the diversity and texture that have always been the hallmark of Black psychology. Shades of Black explodes the myth that self-hatred is the dominant theme in Black identity. With a thorough review of social scientific literature on Negro identity conducted between 1936 and 1967, Cross demonstrates that important themes of mental health and adaptive strength have been frequently overlooked by scholars, both Black and White, obsessed with proving Black pathology. He examines the Black Power Movement and critics who credit this era with a comprehensive change in Black self-esteem. Allowing for a considerable gain in group identity among Black people during this period, Cross shows how, before this, working and middle class, and even many poor Black families were able to offer their progeny a legacy of mental health and personal strength that sustained them in their struggles for political and cultural consensus. Author note: William E. Cross, Jr., is a psychologist and Associate Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center of Cornell University.
The Blacker the Berry
Author: Wallace Thurman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0486461343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA source of controversy upon its 1929 publication, this novel was the first to openly address color prejudice among black Americans. The author, an active member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers insightful reflections of the era's mood and spirit in an enduringly relevant examination of racial, sexual, and cultural identity.
