The Toll of White Supremacy and Trauma on Mental Health

This webinar took place on Monday, April 20, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. ET

Resources:

Here are some resources from our expert panelists that you may find useful as you explore and work on this issue:

•  In Our Own Voice: African-American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery in Mental Health Systems.

• Vanessa Jackson’s website can be found here.

• Separate and Unequal: The Legacy of Racially Segregated Hospitals. Monograph, 2005, - looks at the segregated hospitals.

• Training video Alexander Street Press, "The Politics of Healing: Creating Safe Clinical Space for Activists in Trump Era”

• Journal of Narrative Therapy, "Narrative Therapy and Cultural Democracy: A Testimony View," (2014) 

• "De-colonizing our Lives: Divining a post-colonial therapy," International Journal of Narrative Therapy and CommunityWork  (2002)

• V. Diane Woods, Nicelma J. King, Suzanne Midori Hanna, Carolyn Murray.  “We ain’t crazy!  Just coping with a crazy system - Pathways into the Black Population for Eliminating Mental Health Disparities” (2012)  

• Joseph White, “Toward a Black Psychology,” Ebony magazine (1970) 

• Check out authors published in The Journal of Black Psychology - Linda James Myers, Nancy Boyd Franklin, Joseph White, Fred Phillips, Kevin Washington, Wade Nobles, Naim Akbar