The Negotiation of Cultural Identity: Perceptions of European Americans and African Americans


Jackson offers a detailed exposition of these different reasons, but the gist is that whites do not engage in cultural negotiation because they feel they don't have to, while blacks do not do so because of a desire to retain and nurture their own distinct culture. While, as Jackson points out in his introduction, such conclusions would seem to be true "intuitively" 4 , his empirical verification of these hypotheses is an important and provocative contribution. The potential of this contribution, however, is marred by some of the book's shortcomings.

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No explanation was offered to justify this practice. Research Design and Methodology 7. We were unable to find this edition in any bookshop we are able to search. The author's central questions seemed lost in the details and in the concurrent repetition of summarized arguments. Jackson assembled two focus groups, one consisting of white students at a predominantly black university and the other of black students at a predominantly white university, and asked them "one simple question, 'What's the first thing that comes to mind when someone asks you what culture you are? The inclusion of the secondary study seemed forced. The text clearly illustrates Jackson's commitment to identity studies, and the research questions for the study are undeniably important:.

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The Negotiation of Cultural Identity

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