Tagged: Wretched of the Earth February 17, 2015 “1968 began the journey of Afrocentric psychology. The book Black Rage by [Price M.] Cobbs & [William H.] Grier underlines that period. Prior to that, there was one other book relevant to our psychology and that was Black Masks, White Skin by Frantz Fanon, and of course Wretched of the Earth, [which gave a] psychoanalytical analysis of the ‘black mind.’ It gave us a conscious academia that there was [and] is, in reality, a different cerebral mentality between Eurocentric mindset and Afrocentric mindset. At that point, we were able then to focus our attention on making a mental analysis of the invisible us. We were trying to, at least academically, look within to see what was making us click and tick. Cobbs & Grier, I think, made the best of contributions because they analyzed the serious issue of inferiority as a complex.” — C. Freeman El
February 17, 2015 “1968 began the journey of Afrocentric psychology. The book Black Rage by [Price M.] Cobbs & [William H.] Grier underlines that period. Prior to that, there was one other book relevant to our psychology and that was Black Masks, White Skin by Frantz Fanon, and of course Wretched of the Earth, [which gave a] psychoanalytical analysis of the ‘black mind.’ It gave us a conscious academia that there was [and] is, in reality, a different cerebral mentality between Eurocentric mindset and Afrocentric mindset. At that point, we were able then to focus our attention on making a mental analysis of the invisible us. We were trying to, at least academically, look within to see what was making us click and tick. Cobbs & Grier, I think, made the best of contributions because they analyzed the serious issue of inferiority as a complex.” — C. Freeman El
Me Against Iniquity: Understanding the Complexities of Global White Supremacy (Racism) Through The Eyes of an Unapologetically BLACK Intellectual 