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Book SynopsisMichele Lewis, inspired by African-Centered psychologists and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, argues for a more humanistic cultural neuroscience to further understandings of the influence of isolation, injustice, power, and bias on brains and behavior.Trade ReviewEncouraging readers to explore the brain as a biosocial organ, Lewis weaves together research in neuroscience and African-Centered/Black psychology with contemporary illustrations of oppression and their historic backdrops to make evident the need for an inclusive and deepened cultural neuroscience. Stressing the ways in which the brain is shaped by sociocultural impact, her treatment of cultural neuroscience makes clear the necessity of a shift toward the worldview of optimal psychology found capable of more effectively addressing human needs and providing solutions to global problems.
-- Linda James Myers, Ohio State University, author of
Understanding an Afrocentric World View: Introduction to an Optimal PsychologyTable of ContentsChapter 1 Still Wretched
Chapter 2 Subhuman to Superhuman: Cultural Neuroscience of Illusory Blackness
Chapter 3 Cultural Neuroscience and Poverty: Emotional Emancipation Circle for Black Women
Chapter 4 The Black Women in Poverty Study: Cultural Neuroscience of Social-Injustice
Chapter 5 That Female is Ratchet: Mixed-Slurs
Chapter 6 Negative Emotionality and Disgust Activations Towards LGBT Humans
Chapter 7 Collectivists and Individualists Brains
Chapter 8 Minding Perceptions of Native Peoples
Chapter 9 Killing Loneliness, Saving Humanity
Chapter 10 Environmental Injustices
Chapter 11 Forever Fanon
Chapter 12 Future Directions
