An edition of Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South (2009)

Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South

1st ed.

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Cover of: Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South by Anne C. Rose, Anne C. Rose, Anne C. Rose
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An edition of Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South (2009)

Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South

1st ed.

by and

In the American South at the turn of the twentieth century, the legal segregation of the races and psychological sciences focused on selfhood emerged simultaneously. The two developments presented conflicting views of human nature. American psychiatry and psychology were optimistic about personality growth guided by the new mental sciences. Segregation, in contrast, placed racial traits said to be natural and fixed at the forefront of identity. In a society built on racial differences, raising questions about human potential, as psychology did, was unsettling. The introduction of psychological.

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University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Pages
305

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Subjects

History, Self, Psychology (Study and teaching), Segregation, Identity (Psychology), Southern states, history, Identity (psychology), Psychology, study and teaching, Psychology, Study and teaching

Places

Southern States
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Cover of: Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South
Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South
2009, University of North Carolina Press
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South
Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South
2009, University of North Carolina Press
in English
Cover of: Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South
Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South
2009, University of North Carolina Press
in English

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Table of Contents

How Southerners thought about the mind and its ills before psychology
The promise of the child and the limits of progress
The troubled personalities of the South
In the Southern borderland of mind and soul
The short life of Southern psychology.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chapel Hill

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
155.20975/09041
Library of Congress
BF697 .R654 2009, BF697.R654 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
305

Edition Identifiers

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OL22696003M
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psychologyselfho00rose
ISBN 13
9780807832813
LCCN
2008050483
OCLC/WorldCat
261173683
Library Thing
8536490
Goodreads
7028734

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OL3484774W

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