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Autore |
Boone Sherle L. <1946-> |
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Meanings beneath the skin [[electronic resource] ] : the evolution of African-Americans / / Sherle L. Boone |
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Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-65976-9 |
9786613636690 |
1-4422-1312-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (425 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans - Race identity - History |
Electronic books. |
United States Race relations Psychological aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Published in partnership with the American Educational Research Association." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Different Perspectives on the Significance of Race for Black People; Chapter 2: Changing from Africans to African Am ericans and Concepts of Race; Chapter 3: The Evolving of a Racist Worldview and Psyches of African Americans; Chapter 4: Dehumanized and Stigmatized in a Racially Stratified Society: Psychological Implications for African Americans; Chapter 5: Challenging Conceptions of Race at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Chapter 6: Rethinking African Americans' Identity from Mid-1900s to 2010 |
Chapter 7: Measuring the Psychological Significance of Race in African Americans and Looking AheadChapter 8: Toward Defining the African American; Notes; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Meanings Beneath the Skin: the Evolution of African-Americans traces cultural and psychological transformations among Black people in America from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. By exploring how the meanings that African-Americans attribute to the concept of race contributed to distinctiveness in their psychological and cultural traits, this book reveals the social and political implications of these |
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