Marcus Garvey, a study of projected negro myths

Abstract

The psychological adjustments of minority groups to their social environment is a problem that holds practical as well as theoretical interest for the social psychologist and the sociologist. The heart of the problem lies in the social situation from which one views it. What may seem adjustment to the member of the dominating group is maladjustment for the members of the minority group. One type of adjustment commonly accepted by the dominating group as the best is the suppression of smaller groups through the destruction of its culture or through the operation of discrimination and segregation in social, economicand political fields. Very often the stronger society believes that it has solved the problem of conflicting cultures when it has destroyed the political existence of a group. Such "solutions" are, however, open to question when viewed from the ranks of the minority group or from the objective standpoint of the social scientist.