Title: The punished self
Description: "The Punished Self describes enslavement in the American South during the eighteenth century as a systematic assault on blacks' sense of self. Alex Bontemps explores slavery's effects on the captives' framework of self-awareness and understanding. Whites wanted blacks to act out the role "Negro," forcing blacks into a basic dilemma of identity: How to retain an individualized sense of self under the intense pressure to be Negro? Bontemps addresses this dynamic in The Punished Self."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: African Americans, History, Identity (Psychology), Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Slavery, Psychology, Race relations, Self-preservation, Slavery, Slaves, Social conditions, Sources, Southern States, Psychologische aspecten, Ethnische Beziehungen, Sklaverei, Zelfwaardering, Psychische Verarbeitung, Slavernij, Zelfbewustzijn, Südstaaten, Slaven (arbeid), Slaves, united states, social conditions, Slavery, united states, African americans, southern states, Southern states, race relations, Southern states, history
Places: Southern States
Time periods: 18th century, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775