Post traumatic slave syndrome by joy degruy leary

Alexander, DeGruy wrote in her 2001 doctoral thesis that African Americans "sustained traumatic injury as a direct result of slavery and continue to be injured by traumas caused by the larger society's policies of inequality, racism, and oppression." : 91–92 This is summed up in Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome as:

The book was first published by Uptone Press in Milwaukie, Oregon in 2005, with a later re-release by the author in 2017.Įxpanding on a hypothesis of "post-traumatic slavery syndrome" by psychiatrist Alvin Francis Poussaint and journalist Amy L. The book argues that the experience of slavery in the United States and the continued discrimination and oppression endured by African Americans creates intergenerational psychological trauma, leading to a psychological and behavioral syndrome common among present-day African Americans, manifesting as a lack of self-esteem, persistent feelings of anger, and internalized racist beliefs.

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing is a 2005 theoretical work by Joy DeGruy Leary. Transgenerational trauma, Racial inequality in the United States, Racism in the United States 2005 Theoretical book by Joy DeGruy Leary