Asserts that black mental health professionals must, in addition to providing services, seek out the causes of black mental health, arguing that instead of physical slavery, black people are victims of mental enslavement, which is predicted upon and maintained by Western social science and scholarship. (Author/JM)

The actuality of black kinship bonds and the sense of extended family are exemplifications of the sense of Africanity in black families.. (Author)

Distinctive theoretical features characterizing research in the area of the self-concept are related to investigations into the nature of the black self-concept; a modification of Mead's symbolic interactional approaches is developed; the epistemologic grounding of the research reviewed makes it inapplicable to blacks. (Author/JM)

Responds to two opening articles by Parham ("Cycles of Psychological Nigrescence") and Helms ("Considering Some Methodological Issues in Racial Identity Counseling Research"). The epistemological foundations of the (Non-African-based) source model of Black identity are examined from an Afrocentric perspective. (TE)

Sources of the crises faced by young black men lie not in the young men, but in society which portrays them as stereotypes. Social conditions are at the root of the following problems of black males: (1) lowered life expectancy; (2) risk of criminality; (3) poor economic conditions; (4) inadequate education; (5) drugs and gang violence; and (6)…