Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1: THE BLACK SELF: TRENDS, INFLUENCES, AND EFFECTS -- CHAPTER 1 The Context of the Issues: Historical Events and Considerations -- CHAPTER 2 Conceptualization and Presentation of the Self-Concept -- PART 2: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL EXAMINATIONS OF THE BLACK SELF -- CHAPTER 3 Some Issues, Questions, and Problems Surrounding the Black Self-Concept: Self-Esteem -- CHAPTER 4 Some Issues, Questions, and Problems Surrounding the Black Self-Concept: Group Identity -- CHAPTER 5 What Identity Is Worth: The Interrelationship Explored -- PART 3: THEORY CONSTRUCTION -- CHAPTER 6 Another Look From Another Angle: A Move Toward Theory -- CHAPTER 7 Epilogue: The African Self From the Past, Revelations in the Present, and a Foreshadowing of the Future -- Appendixes -- A The Cross-Sectional Study -- B Tests Across the Social Structural Variables -- C Factorial Invariance and Structured Means -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back_Cover.