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Author Rose, Anne C., 1950-

Title Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South / Anne C. Rose
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) : illustrations
Contents How Southerners thought about the mind and its ills before psychology -- The promise of the child and the limits of progress -- The troubled personalities of the South -- In the Southern borderland of mind and soul -- The short life of Southern psychology
Summary In the American South at the turn of the twentieth century, the legal segregation of the races and psychological sciences focused on selfhood emerged simultaneously. The two developments presented conflicting views of human nature. American psychiatry and psychology were optimistic about personality growth guided by the new mental sciences. Segregation, in contrast, placed racial traits said to be natural and fixed at the forefront of identity. In a society built on racial differences, raising questions about human potential, as psychology did, was unsettling. The introduction of psychological
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-286) and index
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Subject Self -- Southern States -- History
Identity (Psychology) -- Southern States -- History
Segregation -- Southern States -- History
Psychology -- Study and teaching -- Southern States -- History
PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality.
Identity (Psychology)
Psychology -- Study and teaching
Segregation
Self
Southern States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807894095
0807894095
9781469605630
1469605635
0807832812
9780807832813