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Publication Date: 1977
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Black Psychology and the Research Process: Keeping the Baby but Throwing Out the Bath Water
Boykin, A. Wade
Journal of Black Psychology, 4, 1,2, 43-64, Aug 77/Feb 78
Concludes that the concerned black scholar should not shy away from empirical research on the psychological affairs of Afro-Americans because of its attendant vulnerability to presuppositions and biases. Instead he should use a presuppositional infrastructure that is heuristically viable and ethnographically sensitive. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: African Culture, Bias, Black Culture, Black Influences, Blacks, Psychology, Research Needs, Research Problems, Research Utilization
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