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 adults following slavery's end"--

About the author

William E. Cross Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Counseling Philosophy at the University of Denver and the author of Shades of Black: Diversity in African American Identity (Temple); coeditor of Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity; and coauthor of Dimensions of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Beliefs.

Product details

• Authors: Jr. Cross, William E. Cross, William E. Cross Jr
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781439921050
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-2105-0
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries