The Negro Personality Reconsidered

Before considering the Negro personality, it is necessary to advance an operational definition of personality. It is, therefore, the premise of this paper that personality develops as a result of actual contacts with the world and the organization of experiences gained from these contacts into an integrated whole.1 An individual learns to behave in a particular way as a result of interactions with people, not because he possesses innate imperatives for certain kinds of behavior. The individual's distinctive attributes, even his most fundamental human qualities, are products of his experiences with other human beings. Personality is learned as a result of the events in one's personal history.2 That is to say, personality is a product of social learning. Its development is largely a function of social conditions under which one grows up

Personality · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology

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