
Ilsa Govan
- Feb 25, 2013
Master Syndrome and Internalized Racial Superiority
“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.” –Frederick Douglass The Foundations
Listening to Joy DeGruy discuss her book, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healinga few years ago got me thinking about the psychological impact on white people of slavery, genocide and other forms of institutionally sanctioned oppression.My thinking on this topic was pushed f
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