The Concept of Self: A Study of Black Identity and Self-Esteem

by Richard L. Allen

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814338315
Publisher:	Wayne State University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Richard Allen is a professor in the department of communication at the University of Michigan

What People are Saying About This

Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles - Gordon L. Berry

[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.

Editorial Reviews

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

Contemporary Sociology

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.

Eastern Michigan University - Clovis E. Semmes

[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.

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