Should African American be construed as a race or as an ethnic
group? If African Americans are defined as an ethnic group, what
role does culture play in their lives and how can we measure their
culture? This groundbreaking volume argues that we reject the
concept of race and define African Americans as a cultural group.
It presents the first scale ever devised for measuring
acculturation among African Americans, along with powerful studies
that empirically explore the role of culture and acculturation in
African American behavior, health, and psychology. Among the
authors' findings are how acculturation predicts symptoms--such as
depression and anxiety--and physical problems such as hypertension.
Public and mental health researchers and professionals will find
this book an intriguing and useful presentation of an emerging
approach to psychological and health theory and practice. "I found
this volume to be compelling and informative. I believe that this
book will stimulate a great advance in the way we conceptualize
African American psychology in particular and psychology in
general. The authors do an outstanding job of integrating
perspectives from multiple disciplines into a psychological
perspective and then in applying that perspective to their
empirical work. . . . This is a wonderful book and is of great
service to the field." --Hardin L. K. Coleman, Ph.D., Department of
Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin
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