Black-on-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-annihilation in Service of White Domination
- ISBN-10
- 1879164000
- ISBN-13
- 9781879164000
- Category
- African American criminals
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Author
- Amos N. Wilson
Description
"The main thesis posits that the operational existence of Black-on-Black violence in the U.S. is psychologically and economically mandated by a white-dominated status quo. The criminalization of the Black American male is a psycho-politically engineered process designed to maintain the dependency and relative powerlessness of the African -American and Pan-African communities. It moves far beyond blaming the offending party toward an exposure of the psycho-social and intra-psychical dynamics of black-on-black criminality. Wilson contends that though this violence is orchestrated by white America's need to maintain its oppressive domination of black America, its ending is the primary responsibility of blacks here and abroad"--
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