Multidimensional Model Of Racial Identity

In the two studies by Seller, they showed the link between psychological distresses in relation to racial discrimination alongside the development of Black identity. These studies posed very interesting concepts about the process and factors that affect African American identity which generated questions for me while reading through the findings. When thinking about the my experience of being African Americans and Black in America, many people can find similarities regarding racial issues between different ethnic groups. However, a great point that Sellers made in the beginning of the 1998 study which was that no other ethnic minority were explicitly reduced to property which is important to remember because at one point in time, African Americans were subject to 3/5 compromise that stripped them of their humanity in the eyes of European descent Americans.
These two studies included a model that was responsible for measuring different types of racial identities towards the African American community. For example, in Sellers 2003, they developed the Multidimensional Model of Racial Identity, which showed dimensions …show more content…
In Sellers 1998 study, they also used the Multidimensional Model of Racial Identity. This method provided the researches with somewhat of a framework to understand the differences between self-concepts and the attributes of African American individuals (Seller 1998). For example, when an individual is surrounded by discriminatory and racial attitudes, they affiliate the race of that individual with a negative connotation, which can cause African Americans to become inadvertently racist towards those people (Seller 1998). This subconscious connotation is unhealthy, because they become prejudice against other racial groups that just reminds them of how nasty individuals can