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The Unfair Self-Esteem Trap Faced by Minority Students
By Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton — 2012
African Americans internalize, or come to believe, the negative stereotypes directed against them, and thus suffer from low self-esteem. Twenge and Crocker (2002), however, in a large meta-analysis, have shown that African Americans, on the whole, have significantly higher self-esteem relative to White Americans.
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