Black Identity Development Described Through Stomp The Yard

black identity development through stump the Yard.

Black identity.

Black identity development theory was first brought about by William

Cross in 1971.

This theory first came about through what William Cross refers

to as Niagara Cents, and this is the process of

becoming black.

So neither sense encompasses three different patterns that Children and

adults can display.

Pattern A is through experience, so those who may have

not experienced an African African American community within their lives

previously may come across an event in which they are

thrust into the African American community.

Whether that be a positive or a negative instance, hm.

For example, this could be an instance of racism.

Or this could be a positive event that a student

experiences with the African American community.

Pattern be encompasses those students who are coming into their

own knowledge of their cultural and ethnic identities.

So these African American identities can come about by possibly

students going to HBC use and choosing that as their

first college choice patent See encompasses those, um, that go

and look for individual depth within their culture and their

ethnic identities.

So these adults and Children may have been taught about

their cultural and ethnic identities from their family members and

other African American communities.

Yeah, so these three patterns can show up throughout infancy

and childhood, which is Sector one across his theory.

Pre adolescence, which is sector too, and early adulthood, which

is Sector three.

So the first sector is infancy and childhood eso, of

course, at this time, Children are unaware of their ethnic

and cultural identities.

Sector two encompasses preadolescent, so adolescents may display one of

three of these different identities or a mixture of all

three times.

The first is low salience, so this is where racism

is not present.

Their ethnic and cultural identities are not of importance to

the child at the moment.

They can also be viewed as high salient, in which

their culture has been embedded within them as a child,

either by family members or their African American counterparts in

the community.

And then we also have internalized racism.

Eso This can come about from students and Children and

adults having negative experiences associated with the African American community

and can eventually turn into self hatred for one's own

cultural or ethnic identity.

Okay, it has been known that there is no predictive

development throughout the stages, so students and the Children can

move back and forth throughout these different stages.

Definitely the low salience, high, salient and in internalized racism

don't Sector four has to do with early adulthood.

So in early adulthood, high salience individuals haven't established identity,

so they've already discovered their ethnic and cultural identity and

working on ways and to define that low, salient individuals

could still be exploring around and possibly identifying with multi

multiple cultures.

At this point, internalized racism could still be a possibility

for some students who have not yet had an evict

in which they have had a positive experience with the

African American community.

Yeah, adult*** since has four different stages, and I

will also describe how D.

J, the main character in Stump.

The yard moves through these four stages.

S. O.

D. J is ah, college student who a freshman college

student who has recently lost his brother and is moving

through these different stages of nine percents.

Eso the different stages are pre encounter, encounter, immersion, immersion

and internalization.

And so also these different the low salience, the high

salience and the internalized racism faces can definitely still be

present in early adulthood.

D. J was in this specific stage of low salience

and internalized racism, simply because, um D J grew up

in a town in Los Angeles where he definitely was

not secluded from his African American community.

But there was not as much importance placed on his

ethnic and cultural identities eso when he did decide to

attend a historically black college and university, which is called

Truth University in Stomp the Yard, D.

J is beginning to view all these different things so

different racist events or different events that have to do

with African American pride in African American history that he

does not know about.

So this is where D.

J is in majority of the film.

We also have the encounter face.

So in the encounter face, an event must occur in

order to transition into this face on D J transition

into this space.

Around the time that he was starting to be asked

to join fraternities, S.

O. D.

J did not know the importance of fraternities and brotherhood

within ah, historically black college and university on DSO.

He did have to learn all of this, but this

would not have occurred had not the fraternity leaders approached

him with a pledging opportunity.

Immersion, um, is for a student who adapt pro black

identity. And then immersion is when a student does thorough

research of their cultural and ethnic identity past the informational

research and beginning phases of this program.

Um D j definitely with the immersion route, and D.

J was displaying immersion because not only did he go

through Heritage Hall, in which he was able to see

all the different African American history and all of the

different fraternities and sororities that involved high ranking leaders within

society, he definitely did more research to see how the

fraternities help them achieve their goals and achieve their success.

Internalization is the last step, and so adults can adopt

a black nationalist identity in which they're African American.

Identity is the most important they can.

They can adapt a bi cultural identity in which they

separately display their pride in their cultures.

They also have the multicultural approach in which students equally

display all of their different identities at the same equal

level of importance.

The next is Sector six so, and another event must

occur in which their identity comes into question and sex

sector 66 So this can be transactions with oppression.

So this can have a lot to do with racist

events, transactions with other African Americans or transactions within the

multicultural society.

In DJs, case uh, D j.

Had a transaction with another African American male of high

authority, high position of power.

Um, who instead of choosing to help t j, he

chose to harm d j s o that transaction.

Definitely. Uh, definitely.

May deejay realized that maybe there was some*** since

recycling that had to go on.

So D.

J. Was questioning where he was in his community, how

supportive that community was, and that definitely took an effect

on his education and his college experience.

And then, lastly, on what's important about crosses theory is

that there are different responses to how some students may

display some of these stages on been.

Some of the common responses are buffering so figuring out

a way to not talk about their cultural or ethnic

identity, I'm finding something else to talk about.

Cold switching is when students might change up the way

that they talk or change up their language, depending in

depending on what community they are relating to.

At the moment, um, you have bridging and bonding which

are similar because they start to make ties within the

community. And you start to really get in touch with

your cultural ethnic identity through other African Americans.

And then that last responses individual is, um so this

is really important because individual is, um is really that,

you know, higher in of ethnic identity development, black identity

development. This is where you achieve your goals.

This is where even though you do have this multicultural

response in this multicultural identity, you're able to stand out

and also stand within your community.

So that is really important.

And that is crossed this theory of, like, identity development

through stuff the art.

Thank you.

Black Identity Development Described Through Stomp The Yard

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