excerpt - The Psychological Effects of Racism
Racism is insidious. It contorts the mind and everything it touches. In his classic book *Black Skin, White Masks* <https://www.amazon.com/Black-White-Masks-Frantz-Fanon/dp/0802143008/ref=sr_1_2>, Black psychiatrist Frantz Fanon <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon> developed accounts of the psychological effects of racism based, in part, on his own experiences in the French Caribbean. Some of the psychological conditions in the Black community can certainly be attributed to present-day racism, as well as to the multigenerational trauma inflicted on the descendants of American slavery. (Researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University are now examining the links <https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/researchers-examine-links-between-racism-mental-illness> between racism and mental illness, including schizophrenia and psychosis.) full article - The Mental Devastation of Racism - TomDispatch.com <https://tomdispatch.com/the-mental-devastation-of-racism/?utm_source=TomDispatch&utm_campaign=470d54d61e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_14_02_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-470d54d61e-308768745#more> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41455): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41455 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118825135/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
