Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1997 - 269 páginas
For over a century, the idea that African Americans are psychologically damaged has played an important role in discussions of race. In this provocative work, Daryl Michael Scott argues that damage imagery has been the product of liberals and conservative

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Exposing the Psyche in an Age of Racial Conservatism 18801920
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No Consensus No Crisis No Outrage The Experts and Black Personality 19191945
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The Black Family in Social Science Imagery 19281945
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Of Pride and Scientism Racial and Professional Ideologies and the Muted Image of the Damaged Black Psyche
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Plumbing for Damage The Black Psyche in Postwar Social Science
71
The Mark of Oppression Liberal Ideology and Damage Imagery in Postwar Social Science
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Justifying Equality Damage Imagery Brown v Board of Education and the American Creed
119
Beyond the American Creed Damage Imagery and the Struggle for RaceConscious Programs
137
Defining Pride and Redefining Racism The Radical Assau1 on Liberal Damage Imagery 19651980
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The Resurgence of Damage Imagery Representations or the Black Psyche in an Age of Conservative Reform 19811996
187
Notes
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Index
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Daryl Michael Scott is assistant professor of history at Columbia University.

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