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Black Psychology

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This book is an insult to blacks and whites alike. 1 out of 5 stars.
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This book is a hatemongering piece of trash and has very little to do with psychology. It should be called "A bunch of essaysists pulling out the race card at the slightess provocation." I must say there were a few good essays in it, but for the most part, it was not fit to be used as a text. One essay insists that prejudice and discrimination in the US are worse than they were before the civil rights movement. This is such an insult to the civil rights workers, some of whom lost their lives, to say that their sacrifices did nothing to help African Americans. There are very few scientifically valid statements...mostly just accusations. I have NO idea why a reputable university would accept this book as a text.

An excellent introduction to the thinkers and thought that began the Black Psychology Movement 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book provides an excellent introduction to the thinkers and thought that began the Black Psychology Movement in the US. The essays cover a broad range of approaches to and issues of interest to a Black Psychology. They have in common a proactive commitment to moving toward Black self definition and away from the reactive Black psychology of the previous era (disputing aspersions cast by mainstream psychology) and even further away from traditional psychology's penchant for describing Blackness and the Black experience in negative terms. As one might expect during the initiating phase of the sub discipline, the theoretical offerings vary in their practical utility and theoretical fitness. Readers will observe that the ideas of greater merit have survived that initial period of exploration but that all of the essays in this volume are important documentation of the struggle among Black intellectuals set the parameters for an authentic Psychology of the Black Experience. I use this text in my courses regularly. *The text itself does not provide much of a meta-narrative therefore naive users may need to seek information on the broader history of Black psychology in order to place these essays in context.

Unlimited Power: A Black Choice

Anthony Robbins, Joseph McClendon III

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unlimited power a black choice 5 out of 5 stars.
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Unlimited power is a milestone in black personal achievement. It tells the reader how to take control of your mind, body and emotions to get what you want and become a force for good. What I like about it the most and what sets it apart from other black self help books out there is its based on science. NLP is the science of modeling excellence in people wherever you see it whether its in self made millionaires or someone who just knows how to be healthy or you could even use the technology to learn algebra or calculus it doesn't matter. I've used it myself to learn computers now I'm using it to learn how to make more money. The book has Anthony Robbins name on it but it's Joseph's voice through the whole book except for the intro. I think it is essential reading for any black man or woman that wants to become a success in this white dominated society. This book does show you the skills of persuading yourself and other people to do what you want them to do.

The book's goal to give black people access to "unlimited power" I think definitely this book should be read by all african americans because it got me to make decisons about what I wanted and got me to take action. I also learned to actually control my emotional states of mind. There are some deep things in this book about the lies of success that didn't make sense to me initially but they do now. I can sum this book up like this : If black people are to succeed they must change three things: 1. We must raise our standards. 2. We must change our beliefs. 3. We must change our strategies . This book if taken to heart is a golden opportunity to do all that.

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Focusing on the African-American community, the author of Unlimited Power and his associate present a motivational program for training the mind so that African Americans can overcome societal roadblocks to achieve empowerment and the life of their dreams. 125,000 first printing.

Shades of Black: Diversity in African-American Identity

William E. Cross

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must have text for black identity research! 4 out of 5 stars.
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Shades of Black begins to address the issues of identity for African Americans. Even though Dr. Cross has revamped his assessment of racial identity for African Americans, his inital theory of nigresence remains and is throughly explained in the book. I would recommend this book to anyone interested or studying African American (Black) Identity. Before we can advance the field, we have to understand the foundations of thought in this area.

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In this controversial and path-breaking book, William E. Cross, Jr., presents the diversity and texture that have always been the hallmark of Black psychology. Shades of Black explodes the myth that self-hatred is the dominant theme in Black identity. With a thorough review of social scientific literature on Negro identity conducted between 1936 and 1967, Cross demonstrates that important themes of mental health and adaptive strength have been frequently overlooked by scholars, both Black and White, obsessed with proving Black pathology. He examines the Black Power Movement and critics who credit this era with a comprehensive change in Black self-esteem. Allowing for a considerable gain in group identity among Black people during this period, Cross shows how, before this, working and middle class, and even many poor Black families were able to offer their progeny a legacy of mental health and personal strength that sustained them in their struggles for political and cultural consensus.

Psychological Interventions and Research With Latino Populations

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The purpose of this book is to describe state-ofthe-art psychological conceptualizations, interventions, and research with Latino groups living in the United States. Each chapter in this book provides sophisticated information as well as practical suggestions.

Survivors, Victims and Perpetrators: Essays on the Nazi Holocaust

Joel Dimsdale

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Includes Discussion of Nazi German Genocidal Plans against Poles 4 out of 5 stars.
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Although this book is primarily about the Nazi extermination of Jews, it does touch on other genocides.

Based on German documents (p. 49), Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg writes; "The Poles in the territories incorporated by the Reich were in a rather precarious position. It had been planned to shove them into the Generalgouvernement, while the incorporated provinces in the west were to have become purely German. But that program, like the forced emigration of the Jews from Europe, collapsed. In the back of some people's minds a `territorial solution' now loomed for these Poles. On May 27, 1941 an interministerial conference took place under the chairmanship of Staatsekretar Conti of the Interior Ministry. The subject of discussion was the reduction of the Polish population in the incorporated territories. The following proposals were entertained: (1) no Pole be allowed to marry before the age of twenty-five; (2) no permission to be granted unless the marriage was economically sound; (3) a tax on illegitimate births; (4) sterilization following illegitimate birth; (5) no tax exemptions for dependents; and (6) permission to abortion to be granted upon application of the expectant mother." (p.11). (The foregoing proposals were only partly carried out owing to the steadily deteriorating German military situation).

It is not difficult to visualize the extension of the foregoing-discussed plans to all Poles had Germany won the war. The Polish intelligentsia had already been partly destroyed by the Germans through mass shootings and slow deaths in concentration camps, and the remainder would follow suit. The Polish people themselves would be exterminated, over the long term, primarily through passive genocidal methods (artificially-reduced birth rates (including possible mass sterilizations) coupled with artificially-increased "natural" death rates).

Most of the chapters in this book deal with the psychological aspects of being the perpetrators (Nazis) or being the victims, as in the concentration camps. There is also a study of the psychological dynamics of children of Holocaust survivors and children of concentration-camp survivors. Being a child of concentration camp survivors myself, I found this interesting.

Cultural Formulation: A Reader for Psychiatric Diagnosis

Giovanni Caracci

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This Reader is a rich collection of chapters relevant to the Cultural Formulation originally published in the DSM-IV, that covers the Cultural Formulation's historical and conceptual background as well as its development and characteristics. In addition, the Reader proffers reflections on and prospects of the Cultural Formulation, and provides clinical case illustrations of the utility of the Cultural Formulation in diagnosis and treatment.

Black Hamlet (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)

Wulf Sachs

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A Jewish physician and pioneering psychiatrist, Wulf Sachs first met the man he calls "John Chavafambira" in a Johannesburg slum. The year was 1933, and Sachs wanted to learn whether psychoanalysis was applicable across different cultures. John, as he is called throughout, was a Manyika healer-diviner eager to learn the methods of European medicine. For the next two-and-a-half years Sachs psychoanalyzed John by means of free association. The result is Black Hamlet--a narrative, even novelistic, reconstruction of one black South African's life set against the background of two worlds in collision. First published in 1937 to widespread acclaim, this classic work now returns to print in a new paperback edition.

"Some sixty years after its first publication, the text still reads with a remarkable urgency. It has much to offer a modern readership with interests in the construction of social identity, the relationship between knowledge and power, and the interconnections between psychoanalytic, literary, and historical thought. The concerns of its audience today, in a postapartheid and postcolonial world, are very different from those at the time in which it was written. And yet, these concerns are not entirely different. The central question of the book--What dialogue is possible across boundaries of race, nation, and culture?--remains as pressing as ever."--Saul Dubow and Jacqueline Rose, from the Preface

Race and Intelligence: Separating Science From Myth

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In recent years, reported racial disparities in IQ scores have been the subject of raging debates in the behavioral and social sciences and education. What can be made of these test results in the context of current scientific knowledge about human evolution and cognition? Unfortunately, discussion of these issues has tended to generate more heat than light.

Now, the distinguished authors of this book offer powerful new illumination. Representing a range of disciplines--psychology, anthropology, biology, economics, history, philosophy, sociology, and statistics--the authors review the concept of race and then the concept of intelligence. Presenting a wide range of findings, they put the experience of the United States--so frequently the only focus of attention--in global perspective. They also show that the human species has no "races" in the biological sense (though cultures have a variety of folk concepts of "race"), that there is no single form of intelligence, and that formal education helps individuals to develop a variety of cognitive abilities. Race and Intelligence offers the most comprehensive and definitive response thus far to claims of innate differences in intelligence among races.

Folk Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind

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Within the past ten years, the discussion of the nature of folk psychology and its role in explaining behavior and thought has become central to the philosophy of mind. However, no comprehensive account of the contemporary debate or collection of the works that make up this debate has yet been available. Intending to fill this gap, this volume begins with the crucial background for the contemporary debate and proceeds with a broad range of responses to and developments of these works -- from those who argue that "folk theory" is a misnomer to those who regard folk theory as legitimately explanatory and necessary for any adequate account of human behavior.

Intended for courses in the philosophy of mind, psychology, and science, as well as anthropology and social psychology, this anthology is also of great value in courses focusing on folk models, eliminative materialism, explanation, psychological theory, and -- in particular -- intentional psychology. It is accessible to both graduate students and upper-division undergraduate students of philosophy and psychology as well as researchers. As an aid to students, a thorough discussion of the field and the articles in the anthology is provided in the introduction; as an aid to researchers, a complete bibliography is also provided.

Rethinking Psychological Anthropology: Continuity and Change in the Study of Human Action

Philip K. Bock

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This work is a study of human anthropology, addressed from a psychological point of view.