Sweet release
Subtitle: the last step to Black freedom
By: James Davison, Jr.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781591025580
Subjects: African Americans -- Psychology; African Americans -- Race identity; African Americans -- Attitudes; Self-defeating behavior -- United States; Problem families -- United States; African American families; African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-; Community life -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Roots of self-defeat; title: Enmeshment and codependency : just one big dysfunctional family; title: Psychological theories; title: Don't I know you from everywhere? pseudomutuality; title: Mechanisms and machinations of self-defeat; title: Ghetto fables : Aesop ain't got nothing on us; title: Why Big Momma's feets hurt so much; title: Searching for Black identity : backward or forward; title: The blue and the red : just hangin' 'round the 'hood; title: Singing the blues; title: It's all your fault : nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah; title: Baa baa Black sheep : Black leaders and their windmills; title: Is you the one? saving your own damned self; title: Tickets to the new minstrel shows; title: There but for the grace of God go I (and other lunacy); title: Coo! coo! pigeonholes are for the birds; title: Apples and oranges : under the skin and over the hump; title: Black advancers : conservatives, Uncle Toms, or harbingers; title: Messages for those moving forward; title: You can't dance your way out of your constrictions; title: Denial is more than a river in Africa; title: On becoming lactose-intolerant; title: Dumping Pookie : he's heavy and he damned sure ain't my brother; title: Give back to the Black community? Gimme a break!; title: Abandoning the trenches : defeat and misery in the 'hood; title: Snakebite : surviving the venom; title: Hooray! the death of marginality; title: Of soft pretzels, cherry water ice, and hoagies; title: The other side of the mountain : Black identity beyond the struggle; title: Embracing the new you; title: Messages for those being left behind; title: Why you're being dumped; title: E-mail to a dying breed; title: Letter to incarcerated Black men; title: Endangered species : will we miss the call of the wild homies?; title: The race card : no trump; title: Who's in your way now? overcoming yourself; title: Black still? Black selves versus emancipated selves.