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Black as Me: Narrative Identity
Author(s) -
Baylis Françoise
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
developing world bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1471-8847
pISSN - 1471-8731
DOI - 10.1046/j.1471-8731.2003.00070.x
Subject(s) - narrative , identity (music) , construct (python library) , identity formation , sociology , gender studies , personal identity , psychology of self , social psychology , psychology , self concept , aesthetics , art , literature , computer science , programming language
This commentary responds to genetic testing of African ancestry through a series of personal narratives that reveal a complex, intimate, and individualised process of identity formation. The author discusses both how her family and others outside her family have fostered and challenged her sense of black identity. She concludes by maintaining that racial identity is not in the genes but in the world in which we live and the stories we construct and are able to maintain.