Nigrescence and Identity: Some Limitations.

Akbar, Na'im

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Publication Date: 1989

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Nigrescence and Identity: Some Limitations.

Akbar, Na'im

Counseling Psychologist, v17 n2 p258-63 Apr 1989

Responds to two opening articles by Parham ("Cycles of Psychological Nigrescence") and Helms ("Considering Some Methodological Issues in Racial Identity Counseling Research"). Argues that Black or African identity is not a developmental reaction to social oppression, but is a core personality trait, essential to healthy self-integration and identity formation. (TE)

Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Culture, Blacks, Developmental Psychology, Ethnicity, Identification (Psychology), Nature Nurture Controversy, Racial Bias, Racial Differences, Racial Identification, Reader Response, Self Actualization, Self Concept, Self Esteem

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Language: English

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