A Psychology of Liberation and Peace

Download or read book A Psychology of Liberation and Peace written by Chalmer E. F. Thompson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the need to radically transform societies plagued by racism. It places prominence on persistent racialized violence in the lives of Black Americans as influential in how Black people in the U.S. and abroad perceive themselves as Black in juxtaposition to their perceptions of White people and other People of Color. An absence of understanding of the often-masked role of violence in the lives of Black people increases the likelihood of reproducing it. The author offers a reformulation of racial identity theory to examine the construction of Manichaeism in people and societies, and how meaningful engagement that confronts the violence is vital to psychological development, though this engagement also is not without dire risks.