African American responses to racism trace to African cultural origins adapted over time

Evidence

Attempts to explain African Americans’ adaptation to racism have traditionally been ahistorical and culturally neutral. In contrast, the patterns of adaptations to the universal context of racism, I argue, are culturally derived from African origins and applied in a functional way to the challenges presented by this pervasive context. Over time, the adaptations to the human challenges of slavery, Jim Crow, and contemporary forms of dominative and aversive racism have molded and shaped those originating cultural patterns of behavior (Jones, 1986). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1087

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the universal, decontextualized framing of coping/prejudice psychology central to the Allport reassessment thread — connects directly to critique of ahistorical theorizing in the vault.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1087