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Social Emotions/Individuals in Cultures, While Minimal Selves discusses…

- - - - "Constituting oneself as ‘black’ is another recognition of self through difference: certain clear polarities and extremities against which one tries to define oneself . We constantly underestimate the importance , to certain crucial political things that have happened in the world , of this ability of people to constitute themselves , psychically , in the black identity. It has long been thought that this is really asimple process: a recognition - a resolution of irresolutionsa coming to rest in some place which was always there waiting for one. The 'real me' at last !"
  - - - "Hers is not a show for me, and not a show for them. It is for herself, as unconscious as trance. I'm miserable until I realize it is only the phantasm, and I am free. I am with Mayela. I am the man with Mayela."
- - - - "I go to them now as though it was always meant to be , as though the very day that my mother birthed me, she had chosen me to live life eternal , among the children of the deep blue sea , those who have escaped the chains of slavery to form a world beneath the heavens and the blood-drenched earth where you live."
  - - - "I'm not sure where I'm driving, but we are back in the lights of downtown, away from the stars. I'm telling Mayela that it was, it was, that I was trying. She says she's used to it. And she likes these men. They are a challenge to her, she says.
        A challenge? The car windows are down, and the wind, like the heat, is an unmistakable presence."
- - - - "I go to them now as though it was always meant to be, as though the very day that my mother birthed me, she had chosen me to live life eternal, among the children of the deep blue sea, those who have escaped the chains of slavery to form a world beneath the heavens and the blood-drenched earth where you live."
  - - - "And yet I’ve come to believe, and in rare moments can almost feel, that like an illness some vestige of which the body keeps to protect itself, pain may be its own reprieve; that the violence that is latent within us may be, if never altogether dispelled or tamed, at least acknowledged, defined, and perhaps by dint of the love we feel for our lives, for the people in them and for our work, rendered into an energy that need not be inflicted on others or ourselves, an energy we may even be able to use; and that for those of us who have gone to war with our own minds there is yet hope for what Freud called “normal unhappiness,” wherein we might remember the dead without being haunted by them, give to our lives a coherence that is not “closure,” and learn to live with our memories, our families, and ourselves amid a truce that is not peace."
- - - - "I don't want to present this new ethnicity as a powerless,perfect universe. Like all terrains of identification, it hasdimensions of power in it. But it isnt quite so framed bythose extremities of power and aggression, violence andmobilization. as the older forms of nationalism. "
        
        In societies structured in dominance, racial injustice can lead to the marginalization and othering of certain identities. This could result in 'minimal selves' that are fragmented and continually shifting in response to these societal pressures
    - - Explores the fraught senses of inheritance and belonging among African Americans, and critiques the dishonesty and delusion that form major components of the system of white supremacy.
        
        "This relation prohibits, simply, anything as uncomplicated and satisfactory as pure hatred. In order really to hate white people , one has to blot so muech out of the mind-and the heart-that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose . But this does not mean , on the other hand , that love comes easily the hite world is too powerful , too complacent , too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all , too ignorant and too innocent for that. One isbsolutely forced to make perpetual qualifications and one's own reactionsare always canceling each other out. It is this, really, which has driven somany people mad, both white and black. "