The Afro-American Woman's Emerging Selves
- 1 August 1986
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Black Psychology
- Vol. 13 (1) , 1-11
- https://doi.org/10.1177/009579848601300101
Abstract
This article goes beyond the question of the positive-negative valence of the Afro-American female self-concept. It pro poses a model of self-concept formation for Afro-American women that explains the complexity involved in the syn thesis of gender and race self-referents. Three self-referents. psychophysiological referent, African-American referent, and myself referent, are proposed to provide an under standing of the Black female self.Keywords
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