Kenneth Bancroft Clark

"Racial Identity in Context: The Legacy of Kenneth B. Clark is both a tribute to and an evaluation of the work and legacy of Kenneth B. Clark, the psychologist whose groundbreaking studies on racial identity helped shape the momentous Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. Clark's seminal work serves as the springboard for the contributors' discussion of the role of racial identity in the on-going struggle for equality for African Americans. The progress toward racial equality notwithstanding, race continues to define the culture of the United States, keeping its citizens from developing the just society envisioned by Clark and his contemporaries. This volume provides a dialogue among prominent African American as well as non-African American psychologists on this sensitive and polemical issue. Contributors first discuss Clark's life and work and then explore the creation of racial identity and the current need to transform that identity in the face of enduring discrimination and the barrage of negative racial images in our culture. This book examines the barriers, both psychological and social, that need to be removed before fulfilling the hopeful vision of Clark's work."--BOOK JACKET.

Examines the facts of life in the Black ghetto, the power structure of the ghetto, and presents a strategy for change.

This book contains the transcriptions of televised interviews by Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, professor of psychology at City College, New York, with author James Baldwin, minister Malcolm X., and the reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. These men are percieved by white Americans as leaders within the Negro community. The book should be a helpful introduction to the feelings of the Negro community for those white people who wish to understand the concerns of their Negro neightbors more fully.