This book examines the major theories of black and white racial identity moreover theoretical perspectives that were originally developed to describe social fomentation have been updated and. This book examines the major theories of black and white racial identity moreover theoretical perspectives that were originally developed to describe social fomentation have been updated and expanded to explain the role of racial identity in counseling dyads social relationships and groups measures for assessing racial identity are described original research addresses the relationship of racial identity to other personality characteristics such as value orientations decision making . Black racial identity attitudes and white therapist cultural sensitivity in cross racial therapy dyads an exploratory study applying the interaction model to social dyads generalizing racial identity interaction theory to groups interventions for promoting better racial identity development appendices author index subject index preface theory and measurement of racial identity introduction