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- Volume 12
- Issue 3
- Publication Date: Spring 2001
Understanding the Challenge of Creativity Among African Americans
Alexinia Young Baldwin
The relationship between creativity and intelligence, the recognition of creativity in students (a process that can be empirically documented), and the basic construct of creativity are the basis for much discussion. In adding a special population to the discussion, such as African Americans, who, as a group, have a special approach to creativity or method of exhibiting creativity, raises the level of discourse. As Banks (1988) has indicated, cultural behaviors can be distinct within an ethnic group, yet have an overlay from other cultures from the environment in which they exist. Many creative behaviors shown by African Americans overlap those of other cultures. The basic premise of creativity and its underlying principles exists in all populations, but the representation, manifestation, or melding of these principles varies within and among groups.
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