The falsification of Afrikan consciousness
Subtitle: Eurocentric history, psychiatry, and the politics of white supremacy
By: Amos N. Wilson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: AWIS lecture series
Publisher: Afrikan World InfoSystems
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Ethnopsychology -- Africa.; Eurocentrism -- Africa.; Imperialism -- Psychological aspects.; Africans -- Psychology.; Africa -- Historiography.; Africa -- Race relations.; Europe -- Race relations.; Africa -- Politics and government.; Africa -- Relations -- Europe.; Europe -- Relations -- Africa.; Europe -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration.
Description: "[Exposes] the role Eurocentric history-writing plays in rationalizing European oppression of Afrikan peoples and in the falsification of Afrikan consciousness ... [and contends] that the alleged mental and behavioral maladaptiveness of oppressed Afrikan peoples is a political-economic necessity for the maintenance of White domination and imperialism."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: European historiography and oppression exposed : an Afrikan analysis and perspective; title: Eurocentric political dogmatism : its relationship to the mental health diagnosis of Afrikan people; title: The political psychology of Black consciousness.