Hi Emily
On one of "The Better Normal" webinar on Racial Health I posted several resources from Black psychologists concerning intergenerational trauma by likes of my favorite black family therapist and psychologist, Ken Hardy (a follower, in part, of Murray Bowen) and (Joy Deguy, for example). They never made it on "official" resource lists, so I will repost some of them now.
I was orignally trained in Social Work and my undergraduate training required that I minor in minor studies- I chose "African American Studies" and was introduced many of the great minds in that field through their works.
In one course, we watched a video by social psychologist, whose name escapes me (this was in 1989). Her research concerned the internalized self-image of White versus Black children and her instruments were two identical drawings of Little Bo Peep except for one had a White face and one had a Black. The respondents were White and Black young children and they were asked to describe both pictures. The disturbing results were that both the White and Black children, girls and boys, all describe the White Bo Peep in superlatives, while the Black Bo Peep was decribed with negative adjectives.
This trauma- an assault on the self. It's described in the social psychology and sociology literature from the symbolic interactionalist approach, especially Charles Cooley's "Looking Glass Self.
https://lesley.edu/article/per...e-looking-glass-self
We see it in literature as exemplified in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" where the little girl believes she is treated so poorly because she doesn't have White features.
The Bluest Eye pdf
https://docs.google.com/viewer...YmE4MDgwMThkM2QzNDc5
Yes, there needs to be a presence of Black therapists in prominence. Not only do they have the research behind them- they have the lived experience.
You shouldn't have to wait, like I had to, to be in a psychology graduate program to be exposed to Ken Hardy, Dr, Deruy or Michelle Alexander, who I fond after graduation. Mass incarceration, that Prof. Alexander writes about in "The New Jim Crow," is also an assault on Black families resulting in intergenerational trauma. The White men you mention are perfect example of neoliberal, post-colonial, structuralism that is over-focused on individuals at the expense of seeing the bigger picture of traumatogenics. Those marco-level issues are what needs to addressed on the participants in #BlackLivesMatter ubderstabd very well.
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/ctp/The_New_Jim_Crow.pdf
Ken Hardy on The Assaulted Sense of Self
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...6A5oecUWM&t=122s
Dr. Kenneth Hardy - Truama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5mtPXRAKf8
..Revealing White Privilege and Healing Racial Trauma with Dr. Kenneth Hardy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...ssA1b0yo&t=6941s
Breaking Generational Cycles of Trauma | Brandy Wells
Intergenerational Trauma Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlqx8EYvRbQ&t=2s
Dr. Joy DeGruy - Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
- Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary: Post Traumatic Slave Disorder 1:21:36
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD? | AJ+ Opinion 5:48