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    Shades of Black
    Diversity in African American Identity

    William Cross (Author)

    9780877229490

    Paperback / softback, published 18 December 1991

    277 pages
    2 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.399 kg

    "There is not a comparable book that pulls together all of the literature on race attitudes as Cross has done. This is an excellent book; it should be widely read."
    -Harriette McAdoo, Howard University

    "In his book, Mr. Cross presents the results of his close re-reading of the original data from the literature on black identity from 1939 to 1967. Almost without exception, he says, the scholars involved committed two significant errors: They drew conclusions about adult identity from the results of research among preschool-aged children. In addition, they used measures that assessed social attitudes-views about racial identity-but interpreted their findings as if they had also measured elements of personality, such as self-esteem and self-hatred."
    -The Chronicle of Higher Education

    "A major contribution to the scholarship on Black psychological identity.... Cross has carefully addressed this dominant thesis of psychology, and successfully brought it under a new scientific jurisdiction."
    -James M. Jones, University of Delaware

    Presents the diversity that has always been the hallmark of Black psychology, exploding the myth that self-hatred is the dominant theme in Black identity
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