Black identity viewed from a barber's chair : nigrescence and eudaimonia /
This book examines the pathway leading to black consciousness, details how black identity is transacted and performed, offers a critique of the deficit perspective on black life and sheds new light on the way slaves raised children to explain the psychological strengths many ex-slaves exhibited as a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
[2021]
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| Summary: | This book examines the pathway leading to black consciousness, details how black identity is transacted and performed, offers a critique of the deficit perspective on black life and sheds new light on the way slaves raised children to explain the psychological strengths many ex-slaves exhibited as adults following slavery's end. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 183 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-170) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781439921050 1439921059 9781439921067 1439921067 |