Article
Healing Our Race-Linked Wounds
ANCHOR
(2015)
Abstract
There is a race-linked wound in the human psyche that requires healing, an age-old wound that has been festering since human beings became aware of being aware. The race-linked wound is related to humanity’s past and present inability to comprehend and to appreciate perceived human distinctions and differences at individual and collective levels. It is also related to humanity’s attempt to make meaning out of its awareness of and experience with light and dark. The ultimate culprits are fear—fear of differences (otherness), intimacy (closeness), the unknown (unfamiliar or new) or vulnerability (death or annihilation)--and a mechanistic tendency to reduce people to objects.
Keywords
- Race,
- Culture,
- Mind,
- Psyche,
- Psychology,
- Consciousness,
- Social Psychology,
- Philosophy of Mind
Disciplines
- Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching,
- African American Studies,
- African Languages and Societies,
- African Studies,
- American Politics,
- American Popular Culture,
- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment,
- Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics,
- Applied Behavior Analysis,
- Applied Linguistics,
- Behavioral Neurobiology,
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms,
- Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education,
- Biochemical Phenomena, Metabolism, and Nutrition,
- Cellular and Molecular Physiology,
- Child Psychology,
- Civic and Community Engagement,
- Civil Rights and Discrimination,
- Clinical and Medical Social Work,
- Clinical Epidemiology,
- Clinical Psychology,
- Cognition and Perception,
- Cognitive Neuroscience,
- Cognitive Psychology,
- Community-Based Learning,
- Community-Based Research,
- Community Health and Preventive Medicine,
- Community Psychology,
- Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology,
- Comparative and Historical Linguistics,
- Comparative Politics,
- Continental Philosophy,
- Counseling Psychology,
- Counselor Education,
- Critical and Cultural Studies,
- Curriculum and Social Inquiry,
- Developmental Neuroscience,
- Developmental Psychology,
- Economic Policy,
- Educational Psychology,
- Educational Sociology,
- Education Policy,
- Environmental Public Health,
- Ethnic Studies,
- Family, Life Course, and Society,
- Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication,
- Genetic Phenomena,
- Genetic Processes,
- Genetics,
- Genetics and Genomics,
- Health Communication,
- Health Policy,
- Health Services Research,
- Higher Education and Teaching,
- Human Ecology,
- Human Rights Law,
- Indo-European Linguistics and Philology,
- Inequality and Stratification,
- International and Comparative Education,
- International and Intercultural Communication,
- International Public Health,
- International Relations,
- Interpersonal and Small Group Communication,
- Law and Politics,
- Law and Psychology,
- Law and Race,
- Law and Society,
- Legislation,
- Marriage and Family Therapy and Counseling,
- Mass Communication,
- Mental Disorders,
- Metaphysics,
- Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience,
- Molecular Genetics,
- Multicultural Psychology,
- Nonfiction,
- Organizational Communication,
- Other American Studies,
- Other Communication,
- Other Education,
- Other Genetics and Genomics,
- Other International and Area Studies,
- Other Law,
- Other Legal Studies,
- Other Life Sciences,
- Other Linguistics,
- Other Medicine and Health Sciences,
- Other Mental and Social Health,
- Other Neuroscience and Neurobiology,
- Other Philosophy,
- Other Political Science,
- Other Psychiatry and Psychology,
- Other Psychology,
- Other Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration,
- Other Public Health,
- Other Social and Behavioral Sciences,
- Other Sociology,
- Other Teacher Education and Professional Development,
- Peace and Conflict Studies,
- Personality and Social Contexts,
- Philosophy of Language,
- Philosophy of Mind,
- Political Theory,
- Politics and Social Change,
- Psychiatric and Mental Health,
- Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy,
- Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics,
- Psychological Phenomena and Processes,
- Public Affairs,
- Public Health Education and Promotion,
- Public Policy,
- Race and Ethnicity,
- Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies,
- School Psychology,
- Secondary Education and Teaching,
- Semantics and Pragmatics,
- Service Learning,
- Social Influence and Political Communication,
- Social Media,
- Social Policy,
- Social Psychology,
- Social Psychology and Interaction,
- Social Welfare,
- Social Welfare Law,
- Social Work,
- Sociology of Culture,
- Student Counseling and Personnel Services,
- Teacher Education and Professional Development,
- Theory and Philosophy,
- Typological Linguistics and Linguistic Diversity,
- Urban Studies,
- Urban Studies and Planning and
- Work, Economy and Organizations
Publication Date
Spring May 20, 2015
Citation Information
Carroy U Ferguson. "Healing Our Race-Linked Wounds" ANCHOR Iss. 3 (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/carroy_ferguson/36/