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Article: Discredited and discreditable identities: one Black American's experiences in the United States, Jamaica, and England.
- Article from:
- The Western Journal of Black Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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I was born and raised in the United States. At various times, I have lived in the North, South, East, and West. In every region of the United States, the fact that I am a Black/African American has led some White/ European Americans to stereotype, prejudge, and discriminate against me. As numerous studies within social psychology (see Fiske, 1998, for a review) have shown, my experience as the target of the negative thoughts, feelings, and behavior of some of my White countrymen and countrywomen attests to the breadth and depth of anti-Black racism (Gordon, 1995) in the United States--the nation in which I lived for 39 years.
During the past year or so, I have ...