Different perspectives on the significance of race for black people -- Changing from Africans to African Americans and concepts of race -- The evolving of a racist worldview and psyches of African Americans -- Dehumanized and stigmatized in a racially stratified society: psychological implications for African Americans -- Challenging conceptions of race at the turn of the twentieth century -- Rethinking African Americans' identity from mid-1900s to 2010 -- Measuring the psychological significance of race in African Americans and looking ahead -- Toward defining the African American
Summary
Meanings Beneath the Skin: the Evolution of African-Americans traces cultural and psychological transformations among Black people in America from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. By exploring how the meanings that African-Americans attribute to the concept of race contributed to distinctiveness in their psychological and cultural traits, this book reveals the social and political implications of these transformations for relationships between African-Americans and other groups during the twenty-first century.</sp
