[Ads-l] Antedating of "Nigrescence" (Psychological Term)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Nigrescence (OED, 1.b., 1978)

1977 William E. Cross  (title) The Thomas and Cross Models on Psychological Nigrescence (ERIC, Resources in Education.

NOTE:  Cross may have used this term in his 1971 article "The Negro-Black Conversion Experience," Black World 20: 13-27.

Fred Shapiro

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