| Autor: |
Jackson, James S., McCullough, Wayne R., Gurin, Gerald |
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Black Families (0-8039-5573-1); 1997, p251-266, 16p |
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The article reviews the major research on group identification and self- and group attitudes in blacks. The literature on black identification and personal functioning can be divided into two distinct periods demarcated by the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The studies antedating the civil rights movement focused almost exclusively on the supposedly negative effects of black identification. Identifying as black was seen as a "problem," because it meant identifying with an oppressed group and internalizing the negative group image from the dominant white society. Literature on black identification published during the period after the civil rights movement differs from the earlier writings in two major ways. First, although some writers still stress negative black identity, the majority of studies have focused on the positive psychic effects of black identification. Two types of studies predominated in this period: those based on intensive clinical material and empirical studies with young children, mostly around their choices of and reactions to black and white dolls. These latter studies were particularly influential in promoting the view that black identity implied self-hatred. |
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