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...the academic and personal achievement of black children. Conversely, positive racial identity results in high self-esteem and academic performance, as well as a greater ability to navigate racism. If parents don't work on constructing a positive black self-identity for their children, our culture will construct a negative self-identity around their blackness for them.

Thus, the pride that a parent can cultivate in a Black child is not just a matter of race; the parent has a myriad of cultural achievements and perspectives to point to for the child to feel inspired by. Simply out, the health and well-being of black children depend on the extend to which they feel positively about being black. A poor sense if one's self as a black person results in low self-esteem and hinders the...