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Black identity viewed from a barber's chair : nigrescence and eudaimonia / William E. Cross Jr.

Author
Cross, William E., 1940-
Published
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Physical Description
xiii, 183 pages ; 21 cm

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Contents
The barbershop bias -- Nigrescence revisited: the models -- Nigrescence part two: issues -- Double consciousness & the performance of identity -- Interrogating the deficit perspective -- Slavery, trauma, and resilience.
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"--
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ISBN
9781439921050 (hardcover)
1439921059 (hardcover)
9781439921067 (paperback)
1439921067 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
David G. Lashin Memorial Fund
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