Slavery's legacies: An investigation of trauma, attachment, parent-child relations, survival and resistance during African-American enslavement as understood through two female slave narratives
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Title
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Slavery's legacies: An investigation of trauma, attachment, parent-child relations, survival and resistance during African-American enslavement as understood through two female slave narratives
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:67885d33ffcf:11695
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identifier
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12281
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Creator
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Johnson, DeShaunta,
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Contributor
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Diana Diamond
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Date
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2013
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Clinical psychology | African American studies | Psychology | Individual & family studies | African American | cutural trauma | family | slavery | trauma | trauma transmission
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Abstract
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In this dissertation I put forth that slavery has been under-theorized in psychodynamic literature as a potent cultural and historical traumatogen, the effects of which still reverberate through the process of transgenerational trauma transmission. In making this case, I will critically discuss the narratives of two female slaves; Harriet Jacobs memoir entitled Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), and Annie Burton's Memories of Childhood Slavery Days (1909). These narratives are used to illuminate the nature of trauma, the role of attachment relationships in trauma transmission, and to investigate the conditions of parenting, caregiving, resistance and attachment during slavery. Psychodynamic perspective prove powerful in elucidating inter and intra-racial tensions related to narcissistic rage, trauma, aggression, and forms of resistance to multiple oppressions.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
