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Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D. |
Revisiting Du Bois: The Relationship Between African American Double Consciousness and Beliefs about Racial and National Group Experiences [in Journal of Black Psychology (2005), 31, 3-26.] The present study revisits Du Bois' concept of double consciousness by examining the relationship between racial and mainstream acculturation and African Americans' beliefs about their racial and national groups. Surveys completed by 100 prospective Black jurors at a municipal courthouse approximately 6 months after 9/11 revealed that they perceived their racial group as more unjustly treated and more helpless than their national group, but believed their national group was more vulnerable and more in need of maintaining a distrustful posture than their racial group. Additionally, beliefs about racial group vulnerability, unjust treatment, and superiority were stronger for those respondents more deeply immersed in Black culture, while engagement with mainstream culture was unrelated to the strength of these convictions. Both racial and mainstream acculturation predicted their beliefs about the American national group in the domains of vulnerability, injustice, and distrust. Several explanations for these findings are offered. |
| Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D. |
Beliefs in Black and White: How race influences Americans' perceptions of themselves, their racial group, and their national group. [in T.S. Philpot and I. K. White (Eds.). African-American Political Psychology: Identity, Opinion, and Action in the Post-Civil Rights Era. New York: Palgrave McMillan Press.] Among other things, we've found 1) that although Whites are more likely to report being involved in mainstream American culture, both Whites and Blacks feel equally "American," a finding that is consistent with DuBois's conceptualization of the double consciousness,2) that as predicted, there were no significant differences between Blacks and Whites on national group mobilizing beliefs or satisfaction with the national group’s circumstances. Interestingly, however, Blacks perceived the national group as being significantly more helpless than did Whites. However, the pattern of findings for the mobilizing beliefs measures were somewhat contrary to our hypotheses. The results indicated that Blacks did not report greater mobilizing scores for their racial group than their national group, while Whites reported greater mobilizing beliefs for their national group. |
Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D. |
“One Day on the Red Hills of Georgia”: The Effects of Immigration Status on Latino Migrants’ Experience of Discrimination, Utilization of Public Services, and Attitudes Toward Acculturation. [in Norteamérica. (2013), Revista Académica del CISAN-UNAM Año 8, número especial]. This study documents the experiences and identities of undocumented Spanish-speaking migrants in Georgia vis a vis their counterparts who have legal status. Structured interviews were used to collect data from 127 adults (49% undocumented at time of arrival and 38% undocumented at time of data collection) regarding their experience of discrimination, utilization of services, identity preferences, mental health, and beliefs in five domains: vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority, and helplessness. Significant immigration status differences emerged for education, income, utilization of some city services, and a few of the belief scales. However, the documented and undocumented samples were more similar than different. |
Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D. |
Conflicting Views on Closed-System Conflict: |