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Meanings beneath the skin : the evolution of African-Americans /

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 distinctiven...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boone, Sherle L., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Different perspectives on the significance of race for black people
  • Changing from Africans to African Americans and concepts of race
  • The evolving of a racist worldview and psyches of African Americans
  • Dehumanized and stigmatized in a racially stratified society: psychological implications for African Americans
  • Challenging conceptions of race at the turn of the twentieth century
  • Rethinking African Americans' identity from mid-1900s to 2010
  • Measuring the psychological significance of race in African Americans and looking ahead
  • Toward defining the African American.