The Psychological Legacy of Slavery

Essays on Trauma, Healing and the Living Past

Benjamin P. Bowser, Aimé Charles-Nicolas (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

307 Seiten

2021
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7893-1 (ISBN)

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Surveys the practices, behaviours, 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.

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. The psychological legacies of slavery highlighted in this volume were found independently in Brazil, the U.S., Belize, Jamaica, Colombia, Haiti, and Martinique. They are color prejudice, self and community disdain, denial of trauma, black-on-black violence, survival crime, child beating, underlying African spirituality, and use of music and dance as community psychotherapy. The effects on descendants of slave owners include a belief in white supremacy, dehumanization of self and others, gun violence, and more.

Essays also offer solutions for dealing with this vast psychological legacy. Knowledge of the continuing effects of slavery has been used in psychotherapy, family, and group counseling of African slave descendants. Progress in resolving these legacies has been made as well using psychohistory, forensic psychiatry, family social histories, and community mental health. This knowledge is crucial to eventual reconciliation and resolution of the continuing legacies of slavery and the slave trade.

Benjamin P. Bowser is emeritus professor of sociology and social services at California State University East Bay where he was department chair, interim dean and outstanding professor, and visiting professor at the University of Paris, La Sorbonne. Aimé Charles-Nicolas is emeritus professor of psychiatry at the Université des Antilles and University Hospital of Martinique. He is President of the Medico-Psychological Society, editor-in-chief of Journal of Psychiatry, Annales Médico-Psychologiques, and is the recipient of the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honor) and Chevalier des Palmes Académiques (Knight of Academic Palms).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword: Engaging the Silence and Healing Post-Slavery Societies

Ali Moussa Iye

Introduction: Psychological Legacies of Slavery

Aimé Charles-Nicolas and Benjamin P. Bowser

Part One: Commonalities

1. Colorism in Belize

Elma Whittaker-Augustine

2. Slavery and Psychological Trauma in the Haitian Crisis

Judite Blanc

3. Afro-Brazilian Youth: Slavery’s Influence on Crime

Andréa Máris Campos Guerra

and Ana Carolina André-Cadar

4. Slavery’s Legacy in San Basilio Palenque, Colombia

Alexandra Escobar Puche

5. Those Who Disappeared

Bernard Dossa

Part Two: Concepts

6. A Psychiatric Look at the Legacy of Slavery

Aimé Charles-Nicolas

7. Explaining Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Multigenerational Transmission of Trauma

Joy A. DeGruy

8. An Exploration of the Psychological Legacy of Slavery

Benjamin P. Bowser

9. The Psychological Legacy of Slavery in the United States: Trauma Derived from Centuries of Laws and Customs

Edwin J. Nichols

10. The Epigenetic Ramifications of the Trauma: Enslavement, Centuries of Chattel Slavery and Institutionalized Racism

Fatimah Jackson, Latifa Jackson and Zainab El Radi Jackson

Part Three: Solutions

11. Shattering Delusions of Slavery: Psychosocial Re-Engineering of Postcolonial Jamaica

Frederick W. Hickling

12. How to Conduct a Psycho-Social History

Benjamin P. Bowser

13. Healing the Wounds of Slavery: Potentials and Challenges

Scherto Gill

Conclusion: Recommendations and Healing, Releasing

Trauma’s Grip

Aimé Charles-Nicolas and Benjamin P. Bowser

Coda: Masters and Slaves No More

Benjamin P. Bowser and Aimé Charles-Nicolas

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.04.2021
Zusatzinfo	appendix, notes, bibliographies, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	404 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4766-7893-6 / 1476678936
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7893-1 / 9781476678931
Zustand	Neuware