Description

Published by Wayne State University Press

Reviews

"Richard Allen provides a thorough investigation of the African American self."

— Contemporary Sociology

"[This book] provides a provocative, scholarly, and theoretical springboard for other activist-scholars to seek ways of exploring and navigating the journey of a people whose ancestors survived the Middle Passage. "

— Gordon L. Berry, professor emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles

"A richly detailed examination of empirical and theoretical formulations that give vital coherence to current explorations of the Black self-concept . . . . [This] illuminating and beneficial text . . . will prove foundational to all future constructions of a psychology of the Black experience."

— Clovis E. Semmes, Eastern Michigan University