This brief paper develops a humanistic strategy for study of Black self-definition. It contrasts the distinction between personality and culture traditionally conceived in the social sciences with the way in which these important constructs are regarded by those utilizing humanistic strategies. Particular attention is given to the utility of humanistic strategy for penetrating Afro-American presentations of self, and an effort has been made to explore humanistic developments in anthropology, history, and sociology, as well as psychology.This brief, admittedly exploratory paper seeks, as its title suggests, to set forth a strategy for the study of the Black self, and in that sense aims at being a catalyst for further discussion rather than setting forth hard and fast methodological guidelines. That study of the Black self is important is suggested by Wyne, White, and Coop (1974), who observed: Numerous texts and research articles have been written on selfconcept, but very little attention has been given to research or theory regarding the development of self in black Americans. There is still more heat than light surrounding self perceptions of black individuals. (p. xii) at University of Manitoba Libraries on June 18, 2015 jbp.sagepub.com Downloaded from

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Based on a review of the literature, this paper presents an overview of the scholarship on relations between persons of African descent and Native Americans in the Americas. Study of these relations, spread over a number of different disciplines, shaped by the changing interests of these disciplines, has been episodic and seldom continuous. These studies have examined relations between Blacks and Indians in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the northern and the southern areas of what is now the United States. There have also been studies of mixed‐race persons, some of which romanticize Black/Indian relations or attempt to show one suffered more than the other. Other studies use the Indian experience to understand Blacks and the black experience to understand Indians. Finally, there are studies that focus on relations among all three peoples.

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