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African American Acculturation and Black Racial Identity: A Preliminary Investigation

Examines the relationship between acculturation and racial identity among African Americans. One hundred eighty-seven African American students completed the Black Racial Identity Attitude Scale and the African American Acculturation Scale (AAAS). Acculturation was associated with three of the five AAAS subscales: Dissonance, Immersion, and Emersion; Immersion had the greatest correlation with acculturation. (Contains 36 references.) (Author/GCP)

• Author/Creator: Pope-Davis, Donald B., Liu, William M., Ledesma-Jones, Shannon, Nevitt, Jonathan
• Date Published: Apr
• Journal/Secondary Title: Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development
• Number: 2
• Volume: 28
• Year: 2000

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Subject: Black Students
• Subject: Cultural Pluralism
• Subject: Higher Education
• Subject: Racial Identification

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