ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationship of the Black child's experiences and their influences on experiences of grief and bereavement in Black children. It is important that bereaved Black children understand their feelings regarding their losses and their options for responding to those losses. With the contrasting comparisons to White families and White family life experience as portrayed in the popular media the Black child may adopt and internalize the majority culture's biased and stereotyped perception of Black family life. An enduring legacy of the Black Power movement of the seventies for Blacks has been an internalized view of "Black is Beautiful". The self-concept of the Black child has been demonstrated to be correlated with virtually countless behaviors from academic achievement to socioeconomic circumstances and what children come to think about themselves is influenced by the manner in which others think and regard them.
