Ray Winbush
Institute for Urban Research, Morgan State University
Book Recommendations:
Recommended by Ray Winbush
“At last, the book that all people who are truly interested in understanding the lingering psychological and social impact of enslavement on Africans and Europeans has arrived. It is no exaggeration to say that Dr. DeGruy's Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome will mark a milestone in the understanding of the relationship between racism and slavery. Read this book again and again and then give it to your friends, family, and colleagues who want to understand how the ghost of slavery haunts us all.” (from Amazon)
by Joy DeGruy Leary, Randall Robinson·You?
by Joy DeGruy Leary, Randall Robinson·You?
While African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that followed with great strength and resiliency, they did not emerge unscathed. Slavery produced centuries of physical, psychological and spiritual injury. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing lays the groundwork for understanding how the past has influenced the present, and opens up the discussion of how we can use the strengths we have gained to heal.