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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Social Class and Race Class and Race in Negotiating Identity 1. Born with a Veil 2. What Is Black Enough? 3. Living between the Lines 4. I Reconcile the Irreconcilable II. Identity The Social Construction of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture The Intersections of Identity 5. Color-blind 6. Walking a Thin Line 7. Becoming Myself 8. Becoming Comfortable in My Skin 9. Caught between Two Cultures 10. Lost in the Middle III. Resiliance and Resistance Resiliance and Resistance 11. Gotta Keep Climbin' All de Time 12. Finding Zion 13. Feeling the Pressure to Succeed 14. Running Hurdles 15. Reflections on My Survival 16. Quest for Peace
About the author
Dartmouth College and is co-editor of Adolescent Portraits (1999). Janie Victoria Ward is Associate Professor of Education and Human Services at Simmons College and is co-editor of Mapping the Moral Domain (1988). Tracy L.Robinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Counselor Education at North Carolina State University and is co-author of The Convergence of Race, Ethnicityand Gender (1999). Robert Kilkenny is co-editor of Adolescent Portraits (1999) and is Clinical Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School.
Summary
A collection of sixteen autobiographical essays by Africans in America, Afro-Caribbean and bi-racial college students, which explore the process of self-discovery and realization of cultural identity.
