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We may be five to six generations removed from the horrors of slavery, but the trauma of enslavement has been carried by African Americans through the ages. As a result, African Americans today have suffered psychological and emotional injuries and adopted survival strategies to cope.
Black Psychological Functioning and the Legacy of Slavery Myths and Realities WILLIAM E. CROSS, JR. INTRODUCTION The collective or group trauma model being explored in this volume requires that we first identify a group that has experienced a jolting, unpredictable, and monstrous assault. Second,
There is increasing evidence that repressing feelings associated with acts of white racism may be psychologically damaging and lay the foundation for future mental health problems and behaviors...
Michael J Halloran writes that the intergenerational cultural trauma caused by 300 years of slavery – alongside poor economic circumstances and social prejudice – has led to the poor state of physical, psychological and social health among African Americans.
This collection of essays surveys the practices, behaviors, and beliefs that developed during slavery in the Western Hemisphere, and the lingering psychological consequences that continue to impact the descendants of enslaved Africans today.
For psychological slavery to occur, research studies have found four typical situations: Perception of a threat, physical or psychological, and the conviction that misfortune can really...
They add to Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS), a term coined by internationally renowned researcher Joy DeGruy, PhD, to describe the multigenerational trauma and injustices experienced by African Americans — from the dawn of slavery to the recent deaths of Black citizens at the hands of police.
Abstract: There are few studies exploring the psychological impact of slavery on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. This review seeks to present a psychological frame-
There is increasing evidence that repressing feelings associated with acts of white racism may be psychologically damaging and lay the foundation for future mental health problems and behaviors symptomatic of post-traumatic stress syndrome. Harvard psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint asked why suicide rates among black males doubled between 1980 and 1995.
Sexual chaos was always the possibility of slavery, not always realized but always possible: polygamy through the concubinage of black women to white men; polyandry between black women and...