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Al-Shraah, Sameer M. "The Entanglements of Cultural Victimization and Cultural Healing within the Dominant White Apparatus: Tayo in Leslie Silko’s Ceremony and Bigger in Richard Wright’s Native Son." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 9, no. 6 (December 28, 2018): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.9n.6p.60.

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The dominant white culture in the United States of America has always assumed the role of supremacy that victimizes other ethnicities and minorities and looked upon them as inferiors and unworthy of the privileges white people enjoy. Although the maltreatment of the Other-the non-white- differs from one ethnicity or minority to the other, it has always had sheer negative impacts on individuals as well as communities. This paper aims to show the victimization of African Americans as a community in America represented by the atrocity of Bigger and the victimization of Native Americans represented by trauma of Tayo. This paper will tackle the issue of victimization of the two communities-African American and native American-in general through the tough life journeys of the two protagonists of Richard Wright’s Native Son and Leslie Silko’s Ceremony and will try to show two different faces of maltreatment by the mainstream culture, but eventually same negative effects on both communities, African Americans and Native Americans. Thus, many Native Americans are subject to the mainstream culture instrumental policies that convince underprivileged ethnicities that they are integral part of the texture of the American society in time of national need. The irony is that such attitude is only meant to recruit non-whites to fight for the interest of the white supremacist apparatus. Silko eloquently displays patriotism and loyalty as the citizen who is eager and willing to fight and die for his people and country, and in that sense many Native Americans enlisted in the military so as to assert their masculinity. This, in fact, shows the negative effects of the pressure of white supremacist ideologies practiced against non-whites that they choose to act against their desires and choices in the hope that they will be accepted within the American social fabric. Finally, this paper explores some of the solutions available for the victimization and the atrocities of ethnic Americans, such as the communal support and the reconnection to one’s heritage and cultural roots to heal the damaged self-image and psyches of ethnic Americans.
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Adhikary, Ramesh Prasad. "Gender and racial trauma in Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings." AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies 9, no. 1 (April 28, 2020): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/laligens.v9i1.1.

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This paper analyses racial and gender trauma evoking the tormented state of the narrator, Maya in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Based on the cultural trauma, the researcher analyses the experiences of depressed African American women without identities. The narrator struggles to develop her dignified self and nonconformist outlook comes to block her after she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend Mr. Freeeman. The mysterious murder of her rapist creates the guilt, shame in her psychic as she thinks that she is responsible for his murder. The narrator suffering from the guilt and self-loathing results in her psychic turmoil. She stops speaking to people except her brother, Bailey. In the novel, Angelou tries to raise the voice of Black women to achieve dignified identity in the white racist and sexist America looking back on her childhood experiences. In this regard, this research aims to show reasons that cause the traumatic situation in the narrator due to several events that erupt in African American societies. Not only this, this research work explores issues related to the cause of racial and gender trauma and discusses how the narrator succeeds in working through trauma while in some cases the narrator just acts out it. Key Words: Race, Gender, Cultural trauma, Psychic turmoil, identity, self
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Eltis, David. "Fluctuations in Mortality in the Last Half Century of the Transatlantic Slave Trade." Social Science History 13, no. 3 (1989): 315–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200016424.

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The slave trade, death, and misery were inseparable long before abolitionist writers took up the slave trade as a subject in the late eighteenth century. Throughout the historiography there has been widespread recognition that Africans entering the trade died not only during the middle passage but during the process of enslavement and travel in the interior, on the African littoral awaiting shipment, and after arrival in the Americas. Europeans directly involved in the traffic were at risk in the last three of these four phases of transition between life in Africa and life in the Americas, and tended to die at rates comparable to their human cargoes. In the shipboard phase, and probably also in other stages of the journey, mortality in the slave trade normally exceeded that in other long-distance population movements. In the nineteenth century this differential widened as rates on other long-distance routes fell (Cohn, 1984; Eltis, 1984; Grubb, 1987; Klein, 1978; McDonald and Shlomowitz, 1989, forthcoming). To date, most explanations have focused on morbidity and mortality on board ship; data on the preembarkation phases are no more available to us today than to the abolitionists 150 years ago. For shipboard mortality, overcrowding on the ship, psychic shock, and violence have not fared well as explanations in the work of the last two decades, although the interplay between the first two and resistance to disease suggests further consideration. The present study focuses on shipboard mortality, but it is based on a large and complex dataset. It begins with a discussion and preliminary analysis of the nineteenth-century data. This is followed by a review of the various hypotheses on mortality in the slave trade.
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Ogunyemi, Folabomi L. "Trauma and Empowerment in Tina McElroy Ansa’s Ugly Ways." Journal of Black Studies 52, no. 3 (January 11, 2021): 331–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934720986424.

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Ugly Ways (1993) by Tina McElroy Ansa has been overlooked as a significant contribution to African American feminist literary fiction. This paper performs a close reading examining the novel’s thematic intersection of Black feminist theory and trauma theory. Part one of this essay defines Black feminist theory and outlines key concepts of Black feminist thought. Parts two and three focus on the protagonist, Esther “Mudear” Lovejoy, and analyze her “change” through the lenses of Black feminist theory and trauma theory, respectively, highlighting the ways in which Ugly Ways articulates a conception of Black womanhood defined in equal parts by empowerment and psychic pain. Part four argues that Black feminist theory and trauma theory are not just compatible, but consonant. Ultimately, Ugly Ways depicts African American women as complex human subjects and moves beyond conventional historical, literary, and popular representations.
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Washington (Mwata Kairi), Kevin. "Journey to Authenticity: Afrikan Psychology as an Act of Social Justice Honoring Afrikan Humanity." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 60, no. 4 (May 18, 2020): 503–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167820917232.

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The proper healing of a people is difficult without a correct understanding of those peoples’ experiences and their worldview. This is very true with respect to the healing of the shattered consciousness and fractured identity of what has been called the transatlantic slave trade encountered by Afrikan people in America and throughout the Afrikan Diaspora. My journey into healing the wounds of racism and oppression began when I was called a “nigger” in 1971 in first grade. Years of studying Black/Afrikan history and being informed by Black psychologists would inspire me to conceptualize racism as a mental disorder that should be classified as such in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Moreover, I advance a distinct psychology ( Ubuntu psychology/psychotherapy) of healing psychic trauma of Afrikans in America as well as throughout the diaspora and on the continent of Afrika.
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Willis, Tasha Y. "“And Still We Rise…”: Microaggressions and Intersectionality in the Study Abroad Experiences of Black Women." Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 26, no. 1 (November 11, 2015): 209–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v26i1.367.

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Racial microaggressions are racial slights and subtle insults aimed at people of color. Such affronts, though often unintentional, have been documented to come at great psychic, emotional, and physical cost to the targeted individuals. The term microaggression is also applied to women or other groups in society who experience oppression. These insults have been documented in the context of education for years. Though it has been established that students of color often face racial microaggressions on their home campuses, this phenomenon has not been explored in the context of study abroad. How this experience is further complicated by the intersection of gender, race, and other aspects of social identities was the premise of the following study that utilized the Black feminist construct of intersectionality to explore the experiences of 19 African American women who studied abroad through community college programs in three regions: the Mediterranean, West Africa and the British Isles. Findings include experiences of microaggressions by U.S. peers, in-country hosts and in several instances, situations of sexual harassment. Implications and recommendations for study abroad practitioners include discussion of the diversity of community college students, the extension of campus climate to the study abroad program, and the urgent need for critically reflexive staff and faculty equipped to respond effectively to microaggressions.
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Carpenter, James. "The Paranormal Surrounds Us: Psychic Phenomena in Literature, Culture, and Psychoanalysis by Richard Reichbart." Journal of Scientific Exploration 34, no. 3 (September 15, 2020): 614–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.31275/20201799.

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The Paranormal Surrounds Us is a tied-together collection of essays by Richard Reichbart, a practicing psychoanalyst whose several strong interests and lifelong love for the mystery of psi, and sense of adventure and ethical sensibility, give the collection several points of focus. In addition to his current analytic practice of many decades, he has also been a student of literature, a playwright, a Yale-trained attorney, and an activist for Native American and African American rights. The book is as scattered as he has been, but it is so full of insights and pleasing prose, that it doesn’t lose much for that. In this time when we prefer our intellectual material in bite-sized chunks, like sparky TED Talks and internet articles, this may feel especially friendly to many. If there is an implicit, underlying focus to the work, it may be implicitly biographical: one curious man’s study of, to paraphrase Freud, the vicissitudes of psi – its expression in our finest literature, in our private and shared unconscious processes, in our different subcultures, in the deepest privacy of intensive psychotherapy, and in the legal and cultural presumptions that implicitly structure our thinking and behavior. There are three main sections to the book: Psi Phenomena in Western Literature, Psi Phenomena and Psychoanalysis, and Psi Phenomena and Culture.
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Bell, Ph.D., Deanne. "Bearing Black." Journal for Social Action in Counseling & Psychology 5, no. 1 (April 1, 2013): 122–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/jsacp.5.1.122-125.

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In this essay I critically examine the idea of race in light of the killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American unarmed teenager, in Florida in February 2012. I utilize ideas from liberation psychology, including psychic colonization, and depth psychology, including cultural complex, to explore the racialized black as a colonized, traumatized other. I also use my autoethnographic experience (as a Jamaican who now lives in the United States) to discuss how identities built on race are a source of suffering both when we make others black and when we are made black. Bearing black robs us of the possibility of our humanity. Throughout, I ask several questions about sustaining race as a sociological idea if we truly intend to dismantle racism. I invite us to reconsider race in light of an instance where Rastafarians, a small group of Afro-Jamaicans who express profound race consciousness, determine their own image, not only as black, and as a form of resisting white supremacy.
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Spadaro, Francesco. "A commentary on "The cannibalistic impulses in parents" by George Devereux." International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy 1, no. 2 (December 16, 2019): 159–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.33212/ijfp.v1n2.2019.159.

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In this paper Devereux, a Hungarian ethno-psychoanalyst, naturalised French, reports some of his studies made among various populations among which he worked. These included Hawaiians, Indigenous American Indians, and some ethnic groups of the Aleutian Islands, Canada, and countries in Africa. It shows how among mothers and fathers there exists a diffuse cannibalistic instinct to which the baby may respond with a counter cannibalistic position. These impulses assume a universality and can be considered the unconscious universal origin of aggressiveness towards the other. Cannibalistic impulses represent a primitive matrix of parental aggressiveness, in which other causes of aggressiveness towards newborns and children may fit: jealousy, envy, perversions, and oedipal elements. Forensic psychotherapy may benefit from this knowledge indicating the psychic levels and capacities of the patients and evaluating the strength of these impulses in their psychopathology which may correlate to their inner time and their search for narcissistic power.
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Racz, Ioana-Codruta. "Perspectives on Sustainable Development in the Context of Public Health Issues." Management of Sustainable Development 7, no. 1 (June 1, 2015): 37–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/msd-2015-0020.

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Abstract Health is an integral part of sustainable development, a process that can’t be materialized if there is a high prevalence of diseases, a high percentage of those is due to environmental factors. An important component of health is the healthy nutrition, especially of children and pregnant women. Iodine is an essential micronutrient for a good nutrition that covers the physiological needs of the body, iodine deficiency having important consequences for mother and fetus, then for children, especially in the first years of life. The main role of iodine in the body is due to his importance for synthesis of thyroid hormones involved in growth and development of psychic and somatic body, starting with intrauterine life. Iodine deficiency was, and still is, a public health problem, globally the most affected countries are in Central Africa, central South America and northern Asia. Europe iodine deficiency is relatively lower. Multiple interventions were made to improve and even eradicate iodine deficiency disorders, in particular through the universal iodization of salt for human consumption, but must be supported in continuing efforts because this issue is not fully resolved to this day.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African American psychics"

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McCoy-Wilson, Sonya Lynette. "Transgenerational Ghosting in the Psyches and Somas of African Americans and their Literatures." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/39.

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I argue that William Wells Brown’s narrative, Clotel, is informed by the white racism inherent in Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia and reveals evidence of the trauma it has fostered transgenerationally. By examining Toni Morrison’s Beloved, I assert that the trauma of slavery is transmitted transgenerationally in the black female body. I develop my argument using trauma theory, postulated through the work of Cathy Caruth, Dori Laub, Diana Miles, Abraham and Maria Torok, and William Cross. My purpose is to reveal the relevance and lasting significance of the legacy of slavery in contemporary American society. Thomas Jefferson’s white supremacist ideas, along with the system of slavery which nurtured them, continue to plague contemporary American thought and continue to shape African American female identity.
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Bruno, Michelle. "African American status offenders the impact of trauma and family factors on mental health outcomes /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1148611565.

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Tolleson, Jennifer Anne. "The transformative power of violence the psychological role of gang life in relation to chronic traumatic childhood stress in the lives of urban adolescent males /." Click here for text online. The Institute of Clinical Social Work Dissertations website, 1996. http://www.icsw.edu/_dissertations/tolleson_1996.pdf.

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Glover, Tina Marie. "Exploration of culturally proficient mental health assessment and treatment practices of Black/African American clients." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/29729.

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Changing trends within the mental health system treatment practices demand exploration of the cultural context of assessment and treatment of Black/African Americans. Culturally competent assessments include a realistic integration of historical context. Clinicians counseling Black/African Americans must be prepared to assess and address PTSD, racial trauma, micro-aggressions, and other known (or unknown) issues that may affect Black/African Americans. In addition, clinicians must be prepared for the depth and permanence of race-based stress and trauma, as well as the idea that said stress and trauma can result from unaddressed environmental, familial, and/or individual factors. The purpose of this study is to explore cultural competence in the practices of clinicians working with Black/African Americans clients as it relates to assessment, treatment and engagement. Through the exploration of current multicultural counseling and assessment trends, the study explores the origins of stress and trauma in American descendents of African slaves, and proposes an evaluation of clinicians' mental health assessment for PTSD with said clients based on those implications. Exploring to what extent a culturally-proficient clinician engages Black/African Americans clients from initial through on-going assessment and treatment process in conjunction with the professional literature on treatment practices, research suggests that Black/African American clients do suffer from intergenerational trauma and are often mis- or under-diagnosed for mental health issues. With proper assessment of Black/African Americans, the reduction of misdiagnosed or under diagnosed cases of Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as other mental health conditions will occur.
Graduation date: 2012
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Books on the topic "African American psychics"

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Company of prophets: African American psychics, healers & visionaries. St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A: Llewellyn Publications, 1991.

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A Sunday in June: A novel. New York: Hyperion, 2004.

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Richey, K. T. The veil. Deer Park, NY: Urban Christian, 2013.

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Pressions: Memoirs of a southern cat : a novel. Coral Springs, FL: Llumina Press, 2003.

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Colored sugar water. New York: Dutton, 2002.

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Hang my head and cry. New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001.

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Sojourner, Sabrina. Psychic scars, and other mad thoughts: Poems and narratives. Washington, DC: Soitgoz Press, 1995.

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Griffiths, Jennifer L. Traumatic possessions: The body and memory in African American women's writing and performance. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009.

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Alfonsi, Alice. Step up. New York: Disney Press, 2004.

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Women, violence & testimony in the works of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: P. Lang, 2002.

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Odunsi, Babafemi. "Crime Detection and the Psychic Witness in America: An Allegory for Re-appraising Indigenous African Criminology." In Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 265–88. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7537-4_13.

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"1. Mulattos, Mysticism, and Marriage: African American Identity and Psychic Integration." In The Romance of Race, 27–54. Rutgers University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36019/9780813554648-004.

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Summers, Martin. "Whither the Negro Psyche." In Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions, 247–76. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190852641.003.0010.

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This chapter covers the desegregation of the hospital’s wards in the 1950s. It begins by examining the emergence of a universalist turn within psychiatry that rejected earlier assumptions about the existence of racially distinct psyches. By the 1940s and 1950s psychiatrists began to think about mental illness among African Americans on a par with mental illness among whites. This was reinforced by advances in psychopharmacology and the development of social psychiatry, the latter of which took seriously the role of racism in producing mental illness. This universalist turn was more responsible than grassroots activism or government directives for the racial integration of Saint Elizabeths’ wards, although the latter did play a role. Despite the ascendancy of a nonracialist conception of the psyche in the postwar period, however, racism and racial ambivalence continued to play a part in defining the experience of African American patients.
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Stringer, Dorothy. "Psychology and Black Liberation in Richard Wright’s Black Power (1954)." In The Politics of Richard Wright, 198–210. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813175164.003.0013.

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In his travel writings on the Gold Coast/Ghana, Richard Wright drew on two psychological theories—Freudian psychoanalysis and the implicit psychology of African American literary tradition—to describe the relationships among colonialism, state power, racial identity and psychic life. Dorothy Stringer’s essay notes that while Wright’s rationalism and belief in modern progress often prompted him to question, and even condemn, the local cultures and political systems he encountered, his emphasis on actual and historical trauma (above all the traumas of the slave trade) also allowed him to understand daily life, quotidian relationships and minor economic transactions as political in nature, as continuous with a broad history of black resistance, and as tools for projecting a different future for black people.
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Ellenberger, Allan R. "The Final Years." In Miriam Hopkins. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813174310.003.0021.

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Hopkins loses money on an investment and is forced to sell her art collection and her Sutton Place townhouse. Her friend Ward Morehouse dies and, from that, Hopkins is reacquainted with his wife, Becky, and they become best friends. Morehouse recounts her first visit to Hollywood, going to parties and Hopkins’s denial of having a Southern accent. Michael is transferred to March Air Force (now Reserve) Base, sixty miles from Los Angeles. Michael’s regrets, Hopkins’s sometimes stormy relationship with her daughter-in-law, and her affection for her grandson, Tom, are explored. Hopkins’s famous parties, as well as her obsession with psychics, her views on African Americans, and her fear of being forgotten are discussed. Hopkins appears on television and in films, including The Savage Intruder, playing a drunken, aging movie star. With her health waning, she’s given up on love and confines herself to her West Hollywood apartment, drinking champagne and calling friends in the middle of the night.
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Valkeakari, Tuire. "War, Trauma, Displacement, Diaspora." In Precarious Passages. University Press of Florida, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813062471.003.0004.

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This chapter examines Toni Morrison’s and Caryl Phillips’s portraits of African American troops in World War I, World War II, and Vietnam. These authors’ stories of African American soldiers and veterans bring together two topic areas that may, at first glance, seem to have little to do with each other: war and diaspora. This chapter interrogates the complex relationship between diasporic subjectivity and national citizenship. Utilizing Caruthian trauma theory, it reveals how Morrison, in Sulaand Tar Baby, and Phillips, in Crossing the River, subtly link their narratives of temporary traumatic displacement on foreign battlefields with the historical ur-trauma of diasporic dislocation. In these novels, the wounds that the Middle Passage and slavery inflicted on black diasporic bodies and psyches metaphorically bleed into, and coalesce with, traumas and post-traumatic conditions resulting from black participation in modern warfare—participation that both Morrison and Phillips depict in terms of young black men being sent abroad to fight destructive and traumatizing wars that are not theirs to fight. The literal and metaphorical connections that Morrison and Phillips forge between war and diaspora in various ways call attention to the greed and large-scale violence that have all too often accompanied the Western project of modernity.
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