Black Racial Identity and the Search For Self: Confronting Intergroup Stereotypes and Conflict

Authors

John Leonard Harris, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

April 1998

Abstract

“The reality of internal stereotyping is that its basis is in the Black experience in America. This phenomena, which has its roots in White racism and slavery, has possibly had as much of a negative impact on the Black experience as any other factor.”