The Psychological Legacy of Slavery: Essays on Trauma, Healing and the Living Past

ISBN-13: 9781476678931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 307 str.

Benjamin P. Bowser; Aimé Charles-Nicolas

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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