A Psychology of Liberation and Peace

This book addresses the need to radically transform societies plagued by racism. It places prominence on persistent racialized violence in the lives of Black Americans as influential in how Black people in the U.S. and abroad perceive themselves as Black in juxtaposition to their perceptions of White people and other People of Color. An absence of understanding of the often-masked role of violence in the lives of Black people increases the likelihood of reproducing it. The author offers a reformulation of racial identity theory to examine the construction of Manichaeism in people and societies, and how meaningful engagement that confronts the violence is vital to psychological development, though this engagement also is not without dire risks.

• Liberation Psychology
• Peace Psychology
• Black Psychology
• Pan-African Psychology
• Indigenous Psychology
• Cross-cultural Psychology
• Black Lives Matter
• Peace-building
• Racial Oppression
• Racial Violence
• Black Identity
• Identity Shaping
• Intersectionality
• Structural Violence
• Environmental Racism
• Sexual Minorities
• Sexism
• Mass Incarceration
• Immigration

• Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, USA

  Chalmer E. F. Thompson

Chalmer E. F. Thompson, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Indiana University School of Education in Indianapolis. Dr. Thompson is affiliated with Kyambogo University in Kampala, Uganda and considers herself a scholar-activist.

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