Institutional racism has had a major impact on the development of
African American self-esteem and group identity. Through the years,
African Americans have developed strong, tenacious concepts of self
partially based on African cultural and philosophical retentions
and as a reaction to historical injustices. The Concept of Self
examines the historical basis for the widely misunderstood ideas of
how African Americans think of themselves individually, and how
they relate to being part of a group that has been subjected to
challenges of their very humanity.
Richard Allen examines past scholarship on African American
identity to explore a wide range of issues leading to the formation
of an individual and collective sense of self. Allen traces the
significance of social forces that have impinged on the lives of
African Americans and points to the uniqueness of their position in
American society. He then focuses on the results from the National
Study of Black Americans -- a national survey of African Americans
on a wide range of political, social, and psychological issues to
develop a model of African self. Allen explores the idea of
double-consciousness as put forth by W.E.B. DuBois against the more
recent debates of Afrocentricity or an African-centered
consciousness. He proposes a set of interrelated hypotheses
regarding how African Americans might use an African worldview for
the upliftment of Africans in the Diaspora.
The Concept of the Self will interest students and scholars of
African American studies, sociology, and population studies.
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