Testing Cross's Revised Racial Identity Model

An Examination of the Relationship Between Racial Identity and Internalized Racialism

Cokley, Kevin O.

¹Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

²Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kevin O. Cokley, Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University, Mailcode 6502, Carbondale, Illinois 62901-6502. E-mail: [email protected].

Received Date: September 28, 2001; Revised Date: January 11, 2002; Accepted Date: February 14, 2002

Journal of Counseling Psychology 49(4):p 476-483, October 2002.

This study tested revised racial identity model. The relationship between racial identity attitudes and internalized racialism was examined in 153 African American college students attending a historically Black university. Participants completed the Cross Racial Identity Scale () and the Nadanolitization Scale (). Findings indicated that the pre-encounter racial identity attitudes of miseducation and self-hatred, and immersion-emersion anti-White attitudes, were positively related to beliefs in the mental and genetic deficiencies of Blacks as well as the sexual prowess of Blacks. Pre-encounter assimilation attitudes were negatively related to beliefs in the natural abilities of Blacks, whereas internalization Afrocentricity attitudes were positively related. These results provide support for Cross's revisions of his racial identity model.