Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's ChairThroughout his esteemed career, William Cross has tried to reconcile how Black men he met in the barber shop seemed so normal, but the portrayal in college textbooks of Black people in generaland the Black working class in particularis self hating and pathological. In Black Identity Viewed from a Barbers Chair, Cross revisits his ground breaking model on Black identity awakening known as Nigrescence, connects W. E. B. DuBoiss concept of double