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| Harriet Tubman 1820-1913 Abolitionist Conductor Underground Railroad |
Despite it all
Women rose and served America from the beginning of the union into the 20th century and forward
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| Women in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement |
Excerpt, editing, brief comment, image collection
by Carolyn Bennett
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| Ida B. Wells- Barnett 1962-1931 Journalist Exposing lynching |
There are stories and there are stories
I was introduced to this author today when KPFA aired part of a lecture during
its spring (May) 2013 fundraiser (“Up Front” May 8-, etal http://www.kpfa.org/all-programs/public-affairs-kpfa/front).
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| Black women indispensable to U.S. Struggle for human rights |
Dr. Joy DeGruy is introduced as a nationally and internationally acclaimed researcher, educator, author and presenter whose seminars have been praised as “the
most dynamic and inspirational currently being presented on topics of culture,
race relations and contemporary social issues.”
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| Daisy Bates U.S. School desegregation Activist for Quality education for all |
Dr. DeGruy is author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - America's
Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing. This is some of the compelling information
provided at the author’s website.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
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| Daisy Lee Gatson Bates 1914-1999 Little Rock, Arkansas |
As a result of twelve
years of quantitative and qualitative research, Dr. DeGruy has developed a theory of "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome" and published her findings in the book
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing”.
The book addresses the residual impact of generations of slavery and opens a discussion of how the black community can use strengths gained
in the past to heal in the present.
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| Ella Baker 1903-1986 U.S. Civil Rights Leader |
What is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome?
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome is a theory that explains the
etiology of many of the adaptive survival behaviors in African American
communities throughout the United States and the Diaspora. It is a condition
that exists as a consequence of multigenerational oppression of Africans and
their descendants resulting from centuries of chattel slavery. 
… A form of slavery which was predicated on the belief that
African Americans were inherently/genetically inferior to whites …This was then
followed by institutionalized racism which continues to perpetuate injury.
Resulting in M.A.P.:
M: Multigenerational trauma
together with continued oppression;
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| Fannie Lou Hamer 1917-1977U.S. Voting Rights Leader Activist, Campaigner |
A: Absence of opportunity to heal
or access the benefits available in the society; leads to
P: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.
Under such circumstances these are some of the predictable
patterns of behavior that tend to occur:
Key patterns of behavior reflective of Post Traumatic Slave
Syndrome (PTSS)
Vacant Esteem
Insufficient development of what Dr. DeGruy refers to as primary esteem, along with feelings of hopelessness, depression and a general self destructive outlook.
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| U.S. Women1950s |
Marked Propensity for Anger and Violence
Extreme feelings of suspicion perceived negative motivations of others. Violence against self, property and others including the members of one’s own group (i.e. friends, relatives, or acquaintances)
Racist Socialization and (internalized racism)
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| 1875-1955 Mary McLeod Bethune U.S. Educator College founder Educational leader Newspaper columnist |
Learned Helplessness, literacy deprivation, distorted
self-concept, antipathy or aversion for the following:
The members of one’s own identified
cultural/ethnic group,
The mores and customs associated
one’s own identified cultural/ethnic heritage,
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| Sojourner Truth 1797-1883 U.S. Abolitionist Woman Suffrage Women's Rights Campaigner Orator |
The physical characteristics of one’s
own identified cultural/ethnic group.
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| Mary Ann Shadd Cary 1823-1893 North American Educator and Journalist |
he book Post
Traumatic Slave Syndrome incorporates DeGruy’s research in the United
States and in Africa as well as her twenty years’ experience as a social work
practitioner and consultant to public and private organizations.
Study Guide complement to book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
Useful and practical tools to help the reader develop skills
aimed at transforming negative attitudes and behaviors into positive ones.
DeGruy exposes the reader to the conditions that led to the Atlantic slave trade and allowed the pursuant racism and efforts at repression to continue through contemporary times.
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| Black women U.S. Civil Rights Movement |
She looks at seemingly insurmountable obstacles faced by African Americans as the result of the slave trade.
She discusses positive and negative adaptive behaviors African Americans developed which allowed them to survive and often even thrive.
Dr. DeGruy concludes her work with a reevaluation of those adaptive behaviors, which have been passed down, where appropriate, through generations.
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| Ella Baker U.S. Civil Rights leader |
She explores replacing behaviors which are today maladaptive with ones that will promote and sustain healing and ensure advancement of the African American culture.
The Study Guide is designed to help individuals, groups, and
organizations better understand multi-generational functional and dysfunctional
attitudes, behaviors now being transmitted to others in the environments of
home, school, work and the larger society.
The Guide encourages and broadens
the discussion and implications about specific issues raised in the book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s
Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing. The Study Guide provides useful and
practical tools to help the reader develop skills aimed at transforming
negative attitudes and behaviors into positive ones.
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| Dr. Joy DeGruy |
ore about Dr. Joy DeGruy and her work can be found using these links as well
as the KPFA link above: http://joydegruy.com/resources-2/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome/
http://joydegruy.com/about/
Biography and Booking information http://www.speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=5421___________________________________________
Bennett's books are available in New York State independent bookstores: Lift Bridge Bookshop: www.liftbridgebooks.com [Brockport, NY]; Sundance Books: http://www.sundancebooks.com/main.html [Geneseo, NY]; Mood Makers Books: www.moodmakersbooks.com [City of Rochester, NY]; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center: www.enlightenthedog.org/ [Buffalo, NY]; Burlingham Books – ‘Your Local Chapter’: http://burlinghambooks.com/ [Perry, NY 14530]; The Bookworm: http://www.eabookworm.com/ [East Aurora, NY] • See also: World Pulse: Global Issues through the eyes of Women: http://www.worldpulse.com/ http://www.worldpulse.com/pulsewire http://www.facebook.com/#!/bennetts2ndstudy
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