Black identity viewed from a barber's chair : nigrescence and eudaimonia /

"This book examines the pathway leading to black consciousness, details how black identity is transacted and performed, offers a critique of the deficit perspective on black life, and sheds new light on the way slaves raised children to explain the psychological strengths many ex-slaves exhibited as...

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Main Author:	Cross, William E., 1940- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2021]
Subjects:	African Americans > Race identity. African Americans > Psychology. Black people > Race identity. Black people > Psychology. African Americans. Black people.
Summary:	"This book examines the pathway leading to black consciousness, details how black identity is transacted and performed, offers a critique of the deficit perspective on black life, and sheds new light on the way slaves raised children to explain the psychological strengths many ex-slaves exhibited as adults following slavery's end"--