Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South

by Anne Rose

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807832812
• ISBN13: 9780807832813
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"