Identity Orchestration demonstrates the particular importance of identity balance in behavioral health.

Identity Orchestration illustrates the importance of identity balance in behavioral health as seen through a personality psychology lens. The contributors to this collection deeply engage the self and psychological strength by examining race, gender, class, and context with narratives that highlight the asset-based constructs of identity.

Part I: The Lab and Storied Identity

Chapter 1: Hip-hop Narratives as a Natural Start

David Wall Rice

Chapter 2: Rakim, Ice Cube then Watch the Throne

David Wall Rice

Chapter 3: I Stank I Can, I Know I Can, I Will: Songwriting Self-Efficacy

as an Expression of Identity Orchestration

Jacque-Corey Cormier

Part II: Self Complexity

Chapter 4: The Theory of Race Self Complexity and Narrative Personality: Is the Meaning of Race Processed Narratively?

Cynthia Winston-Proctor

Chapter 5: Reflections on Black Women, Family, Offline Archiving and Identity

Asha Grant

Chapter 6: Writing Wrongs: Identity Orchestration and Coping in Prison

Carlton Lewis

Chapter 7: From Corporate to Camera: Identity Orchestration and Finding

Purpose

Mikki Kathleen Harris

Chapter 8: A Picture of James Baldwin Dancing for Freedom: Social Dance And Identity Orchestration

Asha L. French and C. Malik Boykin

Chapter 9: Eleven Days Older Than: Riffs of Reflexivity, Teaching, and the Global Exercise of Being Whole

David Wall Rice

Part III: Orchestration

Chapter 10: Complicating Black Boys

David Wall Rice

Chapter 11: Between Shakespeare and Showing Up

William Marcel Hayes

Chapter 12: High-Stakes Orchestration: Understanding Expressions of Identity

and Appeals to Belonging in the College Personal Statement

Gregory Davis

Chapter 13: Black Boys, “Church” and Supplementary Education, General

Considerations

David Wall Rice, Brenda Wall, and William Marcel Hayes

Chapter 14: Seeing the Unseen: The Role of Identity on Empathy Modulation

Kristin Moody

Chapter 15: LeBron James, Personalized Goal Complexity and Identity Orchestration

Jason M. Jones

Part IV: Making Meaning

Chapter 16: The Black Athletic Aesthetic: Fast Thoughts on Sport, Art and the Self as Freedom Work

David Wall Rice

Chapter 17: Culture in the Age of the Revitalized Athlete Activist: Sports as a Microcosm of Society Post George Floyd

Chelsea Heyward

Chapter 18: Running Beyond the Regulation of Sport

Grant Bennett and Micah Holmes

Chapter 19: Love You, Man: Negotiating Racism, Isolation and Vulnerability in Black Male Peer Relationships

Malachi Richardson

Chapter 20: A Worldwide Home

Robert Shannon

Chapter 21: Crack’s Residue

Donovan X. Ramsey

Chapter 22: A Contemporary Spelman College Social Identity as Motivated by the 2012 Violence Against Women Course Petition

Brielle McDaniel