The Afro-American Woman's Emerging Selves

This article goes beyond the question of the positive-negative valence of the Afro-American female self-concept. It pro poses a model of self-concept formation for Afro-American women that explains the complexity involved in the syn thesis of gender and race self-referents. Three self-referents. psychophysiological referent, African-American referent, and myself referent, are proposed to provide an under standing of the Black female self.