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  • Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair

    Nigrescence and Eudaimonia

    by William E. Cross, Jr. ...
    Throughout his esteemed career, William Cross has tried to reconcile how Black men he met in the barber shop “seemed so normal,” but the portrayal in college textbooks of Black people in general—and the Black working class in particular—is self-hating and pathological. In Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair, Cross revisits his ground-breaking model on Black identity awakening known as ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • African American Identity

    Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience

    by Frank C. Worrell, Richard D. Harvey, Jelani Mandara, Donald C. Reitzes, Michael Cunningham, Vetta L. Sanders Thompson, Joel R. Sneed, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, Stephanie J. Rowley, Stephen M. Quintana, Tabbye M. Chavous, Keena Arbuthnot, Marco J. Barker, Michael J. Cuyjet, Fatima Varner, Latisha L. Ross, William E. Cross Jr., Debra D. Roberts ...
    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 ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Dimensions of Blackness

    Racial Identity and Political Beliefs

    by Jas M. Sullivan, Jonathan Winburn, William E. Cross Jr. ...
    Series series SUNY series in African American Studies
    A multidimensional approach 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 ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity

    Edited by Jas M. Sullivan, William E. Cross Jr. ...
    Series series SUNY series in African American Studies
    Presents research on how variations in African Americans' racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.Focusing 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 ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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    Raising Expectations for Other Peoples Children

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    Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

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  • Unfaithful Angels

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