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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779271403321

Autore

Boone Sherle L. <1946->

Titolo

Meanings beneath the skin [[electronic resource] ] : the evolution of African-Americans / / Sherle L. Boone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012

ISBN

1-280-65976-9

9786613636690

1-4422-1312-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/073

Soggetti

African Americans - Race identity - History

United States Race relations Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in partnership with the American Educational Research Association."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 transformations for relationships between African-Americans and other groups during the twenty-first century.</sp