Beyond Black and White: Conceptualizing and essentializing Black–White identity.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven O. Roberts ◽  
Arnold K. Ho ◽  
Nour Kteily ◽  
Susan A. Gelman
Keyword(s):  
White Identity ◽  
Black And White

Black and White Identity Formation.

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 525
Author(s):  
Judith Porter ◽  
Stuart Hauser
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
White Identity ◽  
Black And White

'Is It not Sufficient to Be a Human Being?' Memory, Christianity and White Identity in Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 395-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerrie Snyman
Keyword(s):  
White Identity ◽  
Western World ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Specific Memory ◽  
Western Hegemony ◽  
The Way

AbstractWithin a hierarchy of senses where sight dominates, race constitutes a regime of visibility with whiteness as the master signifier in the Western world. The essay explores the impossibility to think beyond race in a world that is still deeply racist. Racism is not undone once people have seen through it. In illustrating the performativity of race in terms of white identity issues, the discussion starts with a brief look at what constitutes identity and what is memory's function in constructing particular identities. The argument then turns towards an understanding of Africa's specific memory of Christianity's racialising mission by focussing on how the binaries of Spirit / Flesh became a racial binary of black and white that apparently continues in a post-modern empire without colonies. Subsequently, the essay focuses on an example of this entrapment, namely Bernal's book Black Athena and the ensuing debate where African and Western identities became markers of each other. Lastly, the discussion looks at the way Bernal's construction of memory in President Thabo Mbeki's challenge of Western hegemony and the role of whiteness in our thinking. The essay concludes that whiteness needs to be exposed in terms of the religious roots of its assumed naturalness, eternity and truth that went with its power.

Black and white identity development: Aspects and perspectives

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart T. Hauser
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
White Identity ◽  
Black And White

Priming Race in Biracial Observers Affects Visual Search for Black and White Faces

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 387-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Y. Chiao ◽  
Hannah E. Heck ◽  
Ken Nakayama ◽  
Nalini Ambady
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Search Task ◽  
Visual Search Task ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
White Identity ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Search Asymmetry ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Black Faces

We examined whether or not priming racial identity would influence Black-White biracial individuals' ability to visually search for White and Black faces. Black, White, and biracial participants performed a visual search task in which the targets were Black or White faces. Before the task, the biracial participants were primed with either their Black or their White racial identity. All participant groups detected Black faces faster than White faces. Critically, the results also showed a racial-prime effect in biracial individuals: The magnitude of the search asymmetry was significantly different for those primed with their White identity and those primed with their Black identity. These findings suggest that top-down factors such as one's racial identity can influence mechanisms underlying the visual search for faces of different races.

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