The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Brandon J. Manning, GerShun Avilez, Calvin L. Warren, Michael Chaney, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Margo Natalie Crawford, Aida Levy-Hussen, Robert J. Patterson

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The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture

Soyica Diggs Colbert, Brandon J. Manning, GerShun Avilez, Calvin L. Warren, Michael Chaney, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Margo Natalie Crawford, Aida Levy-Hussen, Robert J. Patterson

258 pages • hardcover • first pub 2016 • 4 editions

nonfiction race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold o...