The black middle class’s tendencies and its “without group” orientation, i.e., the wish of this class to attain full acceptance and status outside its own group in the larger white dominated society. In addition to the wish this group tends to measure itself according to white standards and values and to compete directly against the whites (despite the anxiety-producing side-effects of such competition creates in such blacks). The failure of the black middle class to find full acceptance and the obvious reason for this failure being their blackness makes the members of that class more prone to reject their color which is seen as their source of their failure. To a large degree the black middle class is dependent on the white middle class for affirmation of its status and for its self-acceptance. The black working class because it is mainly dependent on the black middle and lower classes for affirmation of its status and self-acceptance is relatively independent of white middle class standards and values as a means of gauging itself. This “independence” permits this group to have a more positive self-identification and self-image than either of the two other groups. Children from this group are more vocal in expressing hostility toward whites than the other groups. The black working class unlike the black middle-class is “within-group” oriented, i.e, it tends to affirm its status more within the black world than des the middle class black group. The Black Child- The Preschool Years
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