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Post traumatic slave syndrome : America's legacy of enduring injury and healing
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While African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that followed with great strength and resiliency, they did not emerge unscathed. Slavery produced centuries...
While African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that followed with great strength and resiliency, they did not emerge unscathed. Slavery produced centuries of physical, psychological and spiritual injury. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing lays the groundwork for understanding how the past has influenced the present, and opens up the discussion of how we can use the strengths we have gained to heal.
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- Creator
- by Joy DeGruy ; foreword by Randall Robinson
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- Language
- English
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- Portland, OR : Joy DeGruy Publications, [2005]
- ©2005
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- ix, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0985217200, 9780985217204
- OCLC
- ocn810135371
- Originally published in hardcover by Uptone Press in 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-225) and index.
- "I don't even notice race" -- Whole to three-fifths : dehumanization -- Crimes against humanity -- Post traumatic slave syndrome -- Slavery's children -- Healing