Record details

• ISBN: 0807823252 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780807823255 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 080784635X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780807846353 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xix, 269 p. ; 25 cm.
• Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral, Stanford University).

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-259) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Amused contempt and pity : exposing the Black psyche in an age of racial conservatism, 1880-1920 -- No consensus, no crisis, no outrage : the experts and Black personality, 1919-1945 -- "Matriarchies" without damaged personalities : the Black family in social science imagery, 1928-1945 -- Of pride and scientism : racial and professional ideologies and the muted image of the damaged Black psyche -- Plumbing for damage : the Black psyche in postwar social science -- The mark of oppression : liberal ideology and damage imagery in postwar social science -- Justifying equality : damage imagery, Brown v. Board of Education, and the American creed -- Beyond the American creed : damage imagery and the struggle for race-conscious programs -- Defining pride and redefining racism : the radical assault on liberal damage imagery, 1965-1980 -- The resurgence of damage imagery : representations of the Black psyche in an age of conservative reform, 1981-1996.

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Subject:

African Americans > Psychology.
Racism > United States > Psychological aspects.
United States > Race relations > Psychological aspects.
Social sciences > United States > History > 20th century.
Negers.
Psychische problemen.
Persoonlijkheid.
Rassentheorieën.
Sociale politiek.
Sociale wetenschappen.