Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair: Nigrescence and Eudaimonia

by William E. Cross, Jr. and William E. Cross Jr.

Book Overview

Throughout his esteemed career, William Cross has tried to reconcile how Black men he met in the barber shop "seemed so normal," but the portrayal in college textbooks of Black people in general-and the Black working class in particular-is self-hating and pathological. In Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair, Cross revisits his ground-breaking model on Black identity awakening known as Nigrescence, connects W. E. B. DuBois's concept...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439921067
• ISBN13: 9781439921067
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.1"