Situational Stability and Variability in African American Racial Identity

By J. Shelton, Robert M. Sellers. 2000

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Racial identity beliefs and academic achievement: does being black hold students back? (2007, background): “At the same time, however, in situations perceived to be ambiguous, the extent to which race is a superordinate construct in one’s self-concept will determine the manner in which one interprets seemingly neutral events with respect to racial connotations ( Shelton & Sellers, 2000 ).”
The Relationship Between Racial Identity, Ethnic Identity, and Perceptions of Racial Discrimination in an Afro-Caribbean Descent Sample (2006, background): “Some researchers have found that perceptions of racial discrimination are dependant on individual and group psychological processes such as ethnic and racial identity (Jefferson & Caldwell, 2002; Major et al., 2002; Shelton & Sellers, 2000).”
A Longitudinal Study of Social Status, Perceived Discrimination, and Physical and Emotional Health Among Older Adults (2012, background): “This perceptual process is influenced by social status, biographical experience, current emotions, and mental health condition (Blanchette & Richards, 2003; Schnittker & McLeod, 2005; Shelton & Sellers, 2000; Sellers & Shelton, 2003).”
The role of racial identity in perceived racial discrimination. (2003, background): “Nonetheless, the present findings provide added support to other studies (e.g., Operario & Fiske, 2001; Shelton & Sellers, 2000 ) that suggest racial identification predicts perceived racial discrimination.”
Gender Identity and Stereotyping in Early and Middle Childhood (2010, background): “Scholars have separated regard into two components—private regard and public regard (Ashmore et al., 2004; Crocker, Luhtanen, Blaine, & Broadnax, 1994; Luhtanen & Crocker, 1992; Sellers et al., 1998; Shelton & Sellers, 2000).”
“I am because we are:” collectivism as a foundational characteristic of African American college student identity and academic achievement (2009, methodology): “This study employs as its theoretical framework a situational or contextual nature of racial identity as it manifests for African American students within the context of a predominantly White university (Sellers et al. 1998; Shelton and Sellers 2000 ).”
An organizing framework for collective identity: articulation and significance of multidimensionality. (2004, background): “This distinction is made most clearly in the work of Crocker and her colleagues (Crocker, Luhtanen, Blaine, & Broadnax, 1994; Luhtanen & Crocker, 1992) and of Sellers and his colleagues (Sellers, Rowley, Chavous, Shelton, & Smith, 1997; Sellers et al., 1998; Shelton & Sellers, 2000).”
Desirability of the Bem Sex-Role Inventory Items for Women and Men: A Comparison Between African Americans and European Americans (2002, background): “In general, however, gender roles among African Americans have been found to be more fluid to accommodate for the stresses created by racism (McCollum, 1997) and for the relatively greater importance that race plays in African American identity than in European American identity ( Shelton & Sellers,”
Use of an Intersectional Framework to Understand Black Women’s Racial and Gender Identities (2006, background): “Shelton and Sellers (2000) found that both aspects of the situation and the stable centrality or importance of an identity predicted whether race became salient for African American women.”
Racial Identity Matters: The Relationship between Racial Discrimination and Psychological Functioning in African American Adolescents (2006, methodology): “Based on previous research (e.g., Branscombe, Schmitt, & Harvey, 1999; Sellers & Shelton, 2003, Shelton & Sellers, 2000), we hypothesize that African American adolescents who feel that race is a more central identity and who believe that other groups have more negative attitudes toward African…”