Identity Orchestration - Black Lives, Balance, and the Psychology of Self Stories

Identity Orchestration illustrates the importance of identity balance in behavioral health as seen through a personality psychology lens. The contributors to this collection deeply engage the self and psychological strength by examining race, gender, class, and context with narratives that highlight the asset-based constructs of identity.

List of contents

Part I: The Lab and Storied Identity
Chapter 1: Hip-hop Narratives as a Natural Start
David Wall Rice
Chapter 2: Rakim, Ice Cube then Watch the Throne
David Wall Rice
Chapter 3: I Stank I Can, I Know I Can, I Will: Songwriting Self-Efficacy
as an Expression of Identity Orchestration
Jacque-Corey Cormier
Part II: Self Complexity
Chapter 4: The Theory of Race Self Complexity and Narrative Personality: Is the Meaning of Race Processed Narratively?
Cynthia Winston-Proctor
Chapter 5: Reflections on Black Women, Family, Offline Archiving and Identity
Asha Grant
Chapter 6: Writing Wrongs: Identity Orchestration and Coping in Prison
Carlton Lewis
Chapter 7: From Corporate to Camera: Identity Orchestration and Finding
Purpose
Mikki Kathleen Harris
Chapter 8: A Picture of James Baldwin Dancing for Freedom: Social Dance And Identity Orchestration
Asha L. French and C. Malik Boykin
Chapter 9: Eleven Days Older Than: Riffs of Reflexivity, Teaching, and the Global Exercise of Being Whole
David Wall Rice
Part III: Orchestration
Chapter 10: Complicating Black Boys
David Wall Rice
Chapter 11: Between Shakespeare and Showing Up
William Marcel Hayes
Chapter 12: High-Stakes Orchestration: Understanding Expressions of Identity
and Appeals to Belonging in the College Personal Statement
Gregory Davis
Chapter 13: Black Boys, "Church" and Supplementary Education, General
Considerations
David Wall Rice, Brenda Wall, and William Marcel Hayes
Chapter 14: Seeing the Unseen: The Role of Identity on Empathy Modulation
Kristin Moody
Chapter 15: LeBron James, Personalized Goal Complexity and Identity Orchestration
Jason M. Jones
Part IV: Making Meaning
Chapter 16: The Black Athletic Aesthetic: Fast Thoughts on Sport, Art and the Self as Freedom Work
David Wall Rice
Chapter 17: Culture in the Age of the Revitalized Athlete Activist: Sports as a Microcosm of Society Post George Floyd
Chelsea Heyward
Chapter 18: Running Beyond the Regulation of Sport
Grant Bennett and Micah Holmes
Chapter 19: Love You, Man: Negotiating Racism, Isolation and Vulnerability in Black Male Peer Relationships
Malachi Richardson
Chapter 20: A Worldwide Home
Robert Shannon
Chapter 21: Crack's Residue
Donovan X. Ramsey
Chapter 22: A Contemporary Spelman College Social Identity as Motivated by the 2012 Violence Against Women Course Petition
Brielle McDaniel

About the author

Edited by David Wall Rice - Foreword by Edmund W. Gordon - Afterword by Biko Harris Rice - Contributions by Grant Bennett; C. Malik Boykin; Jacque-Corey Cormier; Gregory Davis; Asha L. French; Asha Grant; Mikki Kathleen Harris; William Marcel Hayes; Chels

Summary

Identity Orchestration demonstrates the particular importance of identity balance in behavioral health.

Product details

• Authors: David Wall Rice
• Assisted by: David Wall Rice (Editor), Rice David Wall (Editor), Richard March Hoe Professor of Psychology and Education Edmund W. Gordon (Foreword), Biko Harris Rice (Afterword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2024
• EAN: 9781793644046
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-404-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Ethnic Studies, Biography: general, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Child & developmental psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to African American / Black American people, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional