A Psychology of Liberation and Peace For the Greater Good /

• Main Author: Thompson, Chalmer E. F. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Pan-African Psychologies,
• Subjects: Cross-cultural psychology.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Social justice.; Human rights.; Ethnology-Africa.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Self and Identity.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; African Culture.
• Physical Description: XXV, 166 p. 2 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030135973
• ISSN: 2523-8264
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13597-3

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.