- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Dedication
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Critical Principles and Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century
- Social Justice Theory and Practice: Fostering Inclusion in Exclusionary Contexts
- Reconsidering Citizenship Models and the Case for Cultural Citizenship: Implications for a Social Psychology of Social Justice
- Narrative Approaches within a Social Psychology of Social Justice: The Potential Utility of Narrative Evidence
- Extending the Social Psychology of Racism: A Framework for Critical Analysis
- The Ongoing Psychological Colonization of North American Indigenous People: Using Social Psychological Theories to Promote Social Justice
- Disjunctive: Social Injustice, Black Identity, and the Normality of Black People
- Culture, Psychology, and Social Justice: Toward a More Critical Psychology of Asians and Asian Americans
- Intersectional Understandings of Inequality
- “Who is Tossing Whom into the Current”?: A Social Justice Perspective on Gender and Well-Being
- Transnational Feminism in Psychology: Women’s Human Rights, Liberation, and Social Justice
- Benevolent Heterosexism and the “Less-than-Queer” Citizen Subject
- Of “Takers” and “Makers”: A Social Psychological Analysis of Class and Classism
- Social Class Oppression as Social Exclusion: A Relational Perspective
- Colonization, Decolonization, and Power: Ruptures and Critical Junctures Out of Dominance
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Citizenship and Migrant Identity in the Post 9/11 Era
- Social Justice in Multicultural Europe: A Social Psychological Perspective
- Positioning Theory and Social Justice
- “In the Minds of Men . . .”: Social Representations of War and Military Intervention
- Intergroup Contact in Settings of Protracted Ethnopolitical Conflict
- Intergroup Contact and the Struggle for Social Justice
- Intergroup Dialogue: Education for Social Justice
- Setting the Record “Straight”: Communicating Findings from Social Science Research on Sexual Orientation to the Courts
- Bear Left: The Critical Psychology Project in Revolting Times
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Dilemmas, Dynamics, and Destinies
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
In the discourse on Black identity, the point of departure is typically psychopathology, as revealed by empirical studies on oppositional identity or theorizing about the negative effects of slavery. This chapter reviews historical and psychological research on Black identity and Black self-esteem, presenting a counter-narrative that positions Black folks as ordinary and normal to a degree not previously appreciated. Although Black people are constantly ensnarled in a multitude of Faustian dilemmas, research demonstrates they are able to maintain their sanity and have accumulated an astonishing record of compromise, acculturation, religiosity, patience, and adjustment. Explicating this disjunctive is the focus of the chapter.
Keywords: Black identity, normality, oppression, feminist theory and disjunction, resilience, damage, self-hatred
William E. Cross, Jr. College of Education University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV, USA
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Dedication
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Critical Principles and Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century
- Social Justice Theory and Practice: Fostering Inclusion in Exclusionary Contexts
- Reconsidering Citizenship Models and the Case for Cultural Citizenship: Implications for a Social Psychology of Social Justice
- Narrative Approaches within a Social Psychology of Social Justice: The Potential Utility of Narrative Evidence
- Extending the Social Psychology of Racism: A Framework for Critical Analysis
- The Ongoing Psychological Colonization of North American Indigenous People: Using Social Psychological Theories to Promote Social Justice
- Disjunctive: Social Injustice, Black Identity, and the Normality of Black People
- Culture, Psychology, and Social Justice: Toward a More Critical Psychology of Asians and Asian Americans
- Intersectional Understandings of Inequality
- “Who is Tossing Whom into the Current”?: A Social Justice Perspective on Gender and Well-Being
- Transnational Feminism in Psychology: Women’s Human Rights, Liberation, and Social Justice
- Benevolent Heterosexism and the “Less-than-Queer” Citizen Subject
- Of “Takers” and “Makers”: A Social Psychological Analysis of Class and Classism
- Social Class Oppression as Social Exclusion: A Relational Perspective
- Colonization, Decolonization, and Power: Ruptures and Critical Junctures Out of Dominance
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Citizenship and Migrant Identity in the Post 9/11 Era
- Social Justice in Multicultural Europe: A Social Psychological Perspective
- Positioning Theory and Social Justice
- “In the Minds of Men . . .”: Social Representations of War and Military Intervention
- Intergroup Contact in Settings of Protracted Ethnopolitical Conflict
- Intergroup Contact and the Struggle for Social Justice
- Intergroup Dialogue: Education for Social Justice
- Setting the Record “Straight”: Communicating Findings from Social Science Research on Sexual Orientation to the Courts
- Bear Left: The Critical Psychology Project in Revolting Times
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Dilemmas, Dynamics, and Destinies
- Index
