An edition of Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South
(2009)
Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South
1st ed.
by Anne C. Rose and Anne C. Rose
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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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Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South
2009, University of North Carolina Press
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Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South
2009, University of North Carolina Press
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Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South
2009, University of North Carolina Press
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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