LEADER 03030nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910779271403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-65976-9 010 $a9786613636690 010 $a1-4422-1312-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000000102072 035 $a(EBL)911845 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000681554 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11397088 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000681554 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10654905 035 $a(PQKB)10753679 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC911845 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL911845 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10557824 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL363669 035 $a(OCoLC)845244750 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000102072 100 $a20110603d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMeanings beneath the skin$b[electronic resource] $ethe evolution of African-Americans /$fSherle L. Boone 210 $aLanham, Md. $cRowman & Littlefield Publishers$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (425 p.) 300 $a"Published in partnership with the American Educational Research Association." 311 $a1-4422-1310-8 311 $a1-4422-1311-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aChapter 7: Measuring the Psychological Significance of Race in African Americans and Looking AheadChapter 8: Toward Defining the African American; Notes; Index; About the Author 330 $aMeanings 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.