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The key assumption of this theory was that only the strongest and most intelligent could survive, and findings generally supported a perspective describing African Americans as inferior on individual difference variables.
What is Darwins Survival of the Fittest?
A theoretical framework that seeks to understand how multiple social identities, including race, gender, sexual identity, and disability, intersect within the individual in considering multiple interacting levels of social inequality
What is intersectionality ?
There are two perspectives of this study that scholars weave between. One is Western focused, the other is African focused .
What is the perspectives or schools of Black Psychology ?
Joseph White captured the attention of African Americans in the general public, as well as in academia in this magazine ?
What is Ebony magazine ?
The first African American to receive a PhD in psychology in the United States
Who is Francis C. Sumner ?
Africentric dimension that reinforces interdependence, cooperation, and the motivation to work for the group’s survival rather than for the individual.
What is collectivism ?
A way of thinking that organizes all aspects of one’s life, including intra- and interpersonal thoughts and behaviors and one’s functioning in social systems and institutions in the community (e.g., family, school, job, religious institutions) and the larger society.
What is worldview ?
This model considers how Blacks become aware of being Black in the United States.
What is the Nigrescence Model of Racial Identity ?
This landmark decision ruled that separate but equal education was unconstitutional. That is, schools could not be separate and equal simultaneously.
What is Brown v Board of Education ?
The first African American woman to receive her PhD in psychology.
Who is Inez Beverley Prosser ?
Inequality based on skin color, hair texture, and facial features and an overall preference for Eurocentric physical attributes over African physical attributes
What is colorism ?
Everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or harmful messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership
What are micro aggressions ?
This model describes dimensions of ethnic-racial identity across the lifespan.
What is Lifespan Model of Racial Identity ?
This association founded in 1892, apologized in 2021 for their contributions to racism .
What is the American Psychological Association ?
This husband-and-wife team is best known for their work on racial preferences among Black children, specifically the Doll Studies.
Who is Mamie Clark and Kenneth Clark ?
Several states have banned discussions of this theory and topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in educational settings, believing it to be a divisive topic that is no longer relevant
What is Critical Race Theory ?
Policies or behaviors within institutions or organizations that discriminate against people of color.
What is institutional racism ?
A theoretical framework that seeks to understand how multiple social identities, including race, gender, sexual identity, and disability, intersect within the individual in considering multiple interacting levels of social inequality
What is the Intersectionality Theory ?
This theory was that intelligence and other personality attributes were inherited.
What is Galtons' Eugenics ?
His model, the Nigrescence model provided a framework for other models of identity development
Who is William E. Cross ?
This is the percentage of African American adults who identify as trans/nonbinary , and also the percentage of African Americans in the United States .
What is 1 % ,and 13%?
There are several definitions of this word. The common position is that not a meaningful biological category, and is a social and cultural construction.
What is race?
According to this psychologists many mental illnesses among African Americans are due to attempts to function within an oppressive and alien environment
Who is Na'im Akbar ?
This society was sent to New Guinea to study the mental attributes of its residents, they concluded that the natives of the South Pacific were inferior to Westerners in all traits, including intelligence. This study was the beginning of studies of racial differences.
What is the Cambridge Anthropological Society?
Her work further clarified our understanding that children as young as three years of age are influenced by and have an awareness of societal racial bias but that early in development, knowledge of these societal attitudes is unrelated to African American children’s sense of self.
Who is Margaret Beale Spencer ?