Exploring the likelihood of Black women self-actualizing: the struggle to recover from racial trauma
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Winsora Blanford (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Carol Mullen
Abstract: This paper examines how Black women who have experiened trauma make meaning of lived experiences. The informants' autobiographies provide data for a team approach to psychological phenomenology, a psychological autopsy. The inner lives are traced from pre trauma to self-actualization. Anger, shame, and fear, as well as, love, belonging, running and relationships with other women are investigated.
Exploring the likelihood of Black women self-actualizing: the struggle to recover from racial trauma
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2012
- Keywords
- Autobiography, Black feminist theory, Black women, Critical race theory, Post racial America, Racial trauma
- Subjects
- African American women $x Psychology $v Case studies
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women $z United States $v Case studies
- African American women $x Social conditions $v Case studies
- Blacks $x Race identity $z United States $v Case studies