![]() ![]() DeGruy wrote about it in her 2001 doctoral thesis. Psychologist Alvin Poussaint and journalist Amy L Alexander first proposed the theory. The book was published by Uptone Press of Milwaukie, Oregon in 2006 and rereleased by the author in 2017. The best known work in this area goes back to the work of Dr Joy DeGruy Leary and argues the experience of slavery and continued discrimination and oppression generates psychological trauma that leads to psychological and behavioral problems that affect a lack of self-esteem, feelings of anger and internalized racist beliefs. On the other side of the great divide are those who have suffered through generations of not only slavery but the aftermath that lingers to this day. Many see the fact that slavery in the main was supposed to have ended with the Civil War on one side with the belief of “just get over it.” on the other side. ![]() When it comes to race and the discussion of race in the United States, there is a great divide. ![]()
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