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Sara
S10/P104

And here I is. To tell you that this institution destroys all of us 

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Dr. Joy DeGruy

A Legacy of Healing 

"Dr. Joy DeGruy authored the book entitled Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, (revised 2017) which addresses the residual impacts of trauma on African Descendants in the Americas. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) lays the groundwork for understanding how the past has influenced the present, and opens up the discussion of how we can eliminate non-productive attitudes, beliefs and behaviors developed to cope and survive the traumatic periods of capture, transport, enslavement, Jim Crow and current day racial terrorism."

-from Dr. DeGruy

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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

The Theory

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (P.T.S.S.) is a theory that explains the etiology of many of the adaptive survival behaviors in African American communities throughout the United States and the Diaspora. 


It is a condition that exists as a consequence of multigenerational oppression of Africans and their descendants resulting from centuries of chattel slavery. A form of slavery which was predicated on the belief that African Americans were inherently/genetically inferior to whites. This was then followed by institutionalized racism which continues to perpetuate injury.


-Dr. Joy DeGruy

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Pearl Bailey

“A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.” 

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California Institute for Integrated Studies (CIIS)

Public Programs Series 

In this episode, author Joy DeGruy is joined in conversation by CIIS Dean of Diversity and Inclusion Denise Boston to explore how trans-generational trauma and systems of oppression have influenced race relations in America today.

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Distinguished Faculty Lecture Carol Anderson

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3 Ways Intergenerational Trauma Still Impacts The Black Community Today

By: Janice Gassam Asare

Senior Contributor || Forbes Magazine 

"One major consequence of settler colonialism is the trauma that is passed down from generation to generation—what psychologists label as intergenerational trauma. The American Psychological Association defines this as “a phenomenon in which the descendants of a person who has experienced a terrifying event show adverse emotional and behavioral reactions to the event that are similar to those of the person himself or herself.” For Black Americans who descended from enslaved people, the trauma that was experienced by ancestors has been passed down through each generation." 

-Janice Gassam Asare 

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Maya Angelou

"If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult."

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Sandra

S5/P44

My work matters. 

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Sara

S10/P104

Thing ‘bout an uprising, it ain’t really discretionary. Folks do curious violent things for they freedom. But I reckon the folks who take freedom from others is the most violent. That’s why they call it peculiar institution, I ‘spose 

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Racial Battle Fatigue: What is it and What are the Symptoms?

"Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) was a term coined in 2003 by social psychologist Dr. William Smith; it was originally used in reference to the experiences of African American men in America but is now expanded to describe the negative and racially charged experiences of all people of Color (PoC’s) in the United States."

-Morgan Taylor Goodwin

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Speak Out with
Tim Wise

Episode 38 - Psychologies of Oppression: Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome, the Death of Empathy

& the Assimilation Blues

The guests — Joy Degruy, Jacqueline Battalora, and Rahuldeep Gill — explore the ways that people of color are psychologically affected by racialized injustice, from internalizing oppression to feeling intense pressure to assimilate. Additionally, the panel discusses the way racial trauma is transmitted across generations, the importance of using a sense of shared injury and pain as a bridge for building movement solidarity, and the issue of how and why we must begin to repair the damage of accumulated racial injury, both collectively and individually.

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Sandra

S9/P102)

…Everyone has permission. The abuse has gone viral and no one has to be accountable. No one will be held accountable. NO ONE. 

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