African Culture And Personality: Bad Social Science, Effective Social Activism, Or A Call To Reinvent Ethnology?
by James E. Lassiter Abstract Western social scientists abandoned typical personality and national character studies during the 1960s. However, many sub-Saharan African scholars in various disciplines, those resident on the continent and elsewhere, have continued to identify, describe and make use of what they consider to be widespread African psychological characteristics and patterns of cultural […]