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The Myth of Black Ethnicity: Monophylety, Diversity, and the Dilemma of Identity
The Myth of Black Ethnicity Monophylety Diversity and the Dilemma of Identity Author:Richard A. Davis This book uses the life-course perspective to examine the implications of a belief system that discourages the recognition of individual differences between black Americans. It examines the affects of this myth on the socialization of children and their preparation to be useful citizens, their self- concept, and how they order the signific... more »ant events in their lives. It shows how this myth attaches itself to the various facets of black diversity--age, sex, class, religion, politics, and ethnicity. This myth has helped to assuage these differences at least as far back as slavery. Each generation requires, and has furnished to it, its own myth. It also examines the role of myth-makers, past and present, both black and non-black; what they set out to do and what they actually did. How the black community (and the larger society) benefits from it and how it has been harmed by Preface.« less