A small town has an annual African American beauty pageant. A White woman told the media, "I don't know why they need a pageant of their own. This sounds like reverse discrimination to me." The organizer of the pageant explained in an interview, "The pageant has been a tradition since our founder was excluded from an all-White beauty pageant in 1969." The pageant organizer states that the intent of the pageant is to encourage the development of ______ to protect against the negative effects of racism.

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The pageant organizer states that the intent of the pageant is to encourage the development of positive racial identity to protect against the negative effects of racism.

A Small Town Has an Annual African American Beauty Pageant