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Book SynopsisIn Our Biosocial Brains, Michele Lewis underscores culture, brain, behavior, and social problems to advocate for a more inclusive cultural neuroscience. Traditional neuroscientists to-date have not prioritized studying the impact of power, bias, and injustice on neural processing and the brain's perception of marginalized humans. The author explains current events, historical events, and scientific studies, in Our Biosocial Brains. Readers will be drawn to the relevancy of brain science to examples of injustices and social bias. Lewis also argues that incorporating non-western African-Centered Psychology is vital to diversifying research questions and diversifying interpretations of existing brain science because African-Centered Psychology is not rooted in racist, classist, and exclusionary hegemonic methods. The author argues for attention to marginalized populations, regarding the impact of violence, disrespect, othering, slurs, environmental injustice, health, and general disregard
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1Still Wretched
Chapter 2Subhuman to Superhuman: Cultural Neuroscience of Illusory Blackness
Chapter 3Cultural Neuroscience and Poverty: Emotional Emancipation Circle for Black Women
Chapter 4The Black Women in Poverty Study: Cultural Neuroscience of Social-Injustice
Chapter 5That Female is Ratchet: Mixed-Slurs
Chapter 6Negative Emotionality and Disgust Activations Towards LGBT Humans
Chapter 7Collectivists and Individualists Brains
Chapter 8Minding Perceptions of Native Peoples
Chapter 9Killing Loneliness, Saving Humanity
Chapter 10Environmental Injustices
Chapter 11Forever Fanon
Chapter 12Future Directions
References
Index
About the Author
