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Racial Identity Or The Significance And Meaning That Individuals Attribute To Race Is Recognized As A Key Factor In How African Americans Cope With Racism Experiences. Unfortunately However The Few Studies That Have Examined African Americans' Responses To Racist Events Have Failed To Account For Differences Across Situations That African Americans Experience Making It Difficult To Ascertain Whether Differences In Coping Are Due To Person Variables The Situation Or Both. In The Present Study We Adopted A Stress And Coping Approach To Examine The Relations Among Racial Identity Racism-Related Stress Appraisal And Coping With Lifetime Racism Experiences.