The Concept of Identity in Race Relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23249835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erik H Erikson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 323-348 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Americans from Africa (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315082493-21 |
| OpenAlex | W2907539106 |
| ISBN | 9781315082493 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Social scientists sometimes attempt to make it more concrete. At a time when the term identity refers, more often than not, to a more or less desperate quest, or even to something mostly negative or absent, it may be well to introduce the subject with quotations from two men who asserted strongly what identity feels like when people become aware of it. A "sense of identity" obviously has conscious aspects, such as the experience of an increased unity of the physical and mental, moral and sensual selves, and of oneness in the way one experiences oneself and the way others seem to experience people. An intelligence test is a middle-class white man's instrument; it is a device whites use to prove their capacities and get ahead in the white world. Achieving a high test score does not have the same meaning for a lower-status Negro child, and it may even carry a definite connotation of personal threat.
Aesthetics · Identity (music) · Race (biology) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1968 - 1988 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |