Perceiving pervasive discrimination among African Americans: Implications for group identification and well-being.

NR Branscombe, MT Schmitt… - Journal of personality and …, 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
The processes involved in well-being maintenance among African Americans who differed
in their attributions to prejudice were examined. A rejection–identification model was …

Racial identity and academic attainment among African American adolescents

TM Chavous, DH Bernat, K Schmeelk‐Cone… - Child …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, the relationships between racial identity and academic outcomes for African
American adolescents were explored. In examining race beliefs, the study differentiated …

Socialization to race and its relationship to racial identification among African Americans

VLS Thompson - Journal of Black Psychology, 1994 - journals.sagepub.com
This study focuses on the relationship between socialization to race and the level of racial
identification among African Americans. In a survey of 225 African Americans (140 females …

Birthmarks: Transracial adoption in contemporary America

S Patton-Imani - Birthmarks, 2000 - degruyter.com
Can White parents teach their Black children African American culture and history? Can they
impart to them the survival skills necessary to survive in the racially stratified United States …

Racial identity and media orientation: Exploring the nature of constraint

JL Davis, OH Gandy Jr - Journal of Black Studies, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
Our relationships with the mass media are at least partly determined by the perceived utility
of the information we gather from them. We look to the media to fulfill certain functions …

Racism: perceptions of distress among African Americans

VLS Thompson - Community Mental Health Journal, 2002 - Springer
Some scholars have suggested that stressful living conditions are a major source of mental
disorder among African Americans (Krieger, 1999; Neighbors, 1990; Kessler & Neighbors …

Variables affecting racial-identity salience among African Americans

VLS Thompson - The Journal of social psychology, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
The author clarified the African American racial-group identification process by addressing
the issue of salience and its relationship to racial-group attitudes. A sample of 409 African …

Barack Obama and the politics of blackness

R Walters - Journal of Black Studies, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
This analysis assesses the debate over the relevance of the strength of Barack Obama's
“Blackness.” Defined as the cultural cues in his personal identity, his “Blackness” exists as a …

Examining the consequences of exposure to racism for the executive functioning of Black students

AN Bair, JR Steele - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2010 - Elsevier
Recent research has demonstrated that interracial interactions, reminders of stigmatized
identities, and exposure to ambiguous racism can deplete the self-control resources of …

Racial self-designation, racial identity, and self-esteem revisited

SL Speight, EM Vera… - Journal of Black …, 1996 - journals.sagepub.com
The present study examined the relationships among racial self-designation, racial identity
attitudes, self-esteem, and demographic variables in a diverse sample …