Black Culture, Negroes and Colored People: Racial Image and Self-esteem Among Black Adolescents.

Cummings, Scott; Carrere, Robert

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Publication Date: 1975

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Black Culture, Negroes and Colored People: Racial Image and Self-esteem Among Black Adolescents

Cummings, Scott; Carrere, Robert

Phylon, 36, 3, 238-248, Sep 75

Data from a survey of black high school seniors is used to test two ideas, it is stated: that (1) explanations of lw self-esteem among blacks are based, to a large extent, on the assumption that whites serve as a significant other for blacks, and (2) that this negatively affects their general level of self-esteem. (Author/JM)

Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Youth, Ethnic Stereotypes, High School Students, Identification (Psychology), Racial Identification, Self Concept, Self Esteem, Socialization

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Identifiers - Location: Connecticut

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