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ISBN
9781633887572

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Prometheus Books, Publishers
ISBN-10
163388757X
ISBN-13
9781633887572
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15050405547

Product Key Features

Book Title
Marse : a Psychological Portrait of the Southern Slave Master and His Legacy of White Supremacy
Number of Pages
300 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Slavery, United States / 19th Century, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Author
H. D. Kirkpatrick
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-023134
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
POWERFUL; POIGNANT; EXQUISITELY DESCRIPTIVE; CONSTRUCTIVELY DISTURBING; AND, UNFORTUNATELY, REMARKABLY TIMELY. David A. Martindale, Ph.D. Forensic Psychologist, A remarkable book: passionate and analytical, historical and personal. Be prepared to reexamine what you think you know about the United States' past and present. Thomas Cole, Ph.D.Librarian, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, Combining history and forensic psychology, Kirkpatrick deeply explores how slaveholders justified to themselves owning other human beings. Unique and troubling, Marse traces the construction of a collective pathology and documents the enslavers' psychological acrobatics. This is unforgettable and necessary work on the hard history of slavery, here unsparingly depicted.Glenda Elizabeth GilmorePeter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor Emerita, Yale University
Dewey Decimal
306.3620975
Synopsis
Written by a clinical and forensic psychologist, Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the American Southern White Elite Slave Master and His Endurig Impact focuses on the white men who composed the southern planter class. The book is a psychological autopsy of the mind and slaveholding behavior that helps explain the enduring roots of white supremacy and the hidden wound of racist slavery that continues to affect all Americans today. Marse details and illuminates examples of the psychological mechanisms by which southern slave masters justified owning another human being as property and how they formed a society in which it was morally acceptable. Kirkpatrick uses forensic psychology to analyze the personality formation, defense mechanisms, and psychopathologies of slave masters. Their delusional beliefs and assumptions about black Africans extended to a forceful cohort of white slaveholding women, and they twisted Christianity to promote slavery as a positive good. He examines the masters' stress and fears, and how they developed psychologically fatal, slavery-specific defense mechanisms to cope. Through sources such as diaries, letters, autobiographies, and sermons, Marse describes the ways in which slaveholders created a delusional worldview that sanctioned cruel instruments of punishment, and the laws and social policies of domination used to rob Blacks of their human rights. In light of the seismic shift in race relations our nation is experiencing right now, this book is timely because it will advance our understanding of the South's self-defeating romance with racist slavery and its latent and chronic effects. The parallels between the psychology of antebellum slaveholding and today's racism are palpable., Written by a clinical and forensic psychologist, Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the Southern Slave Master and His Legacy of White Supremacy focuses on the white men who composed the southern planter class. The book is a psychological autopsy of the mind and slaveholding behavior that helps explain the enduring roots of white supremacy and the hidden wound of racist slavery that continues to affect all Americans today. Marse details and illuminates examples of the psychological mechanisms by which southern slave masters justified owning another human being as property and how they formed a society in which it was morally acceptable. Kirkpatrick uses forensic psychology to analyze the personality formation, defense mechanisms, and psychopathologies of slave masters. Their delusional beliefs and assumptions about black Africans extended to a forceful cohort of white slaveholding women, and they twisted Christianity to promote slavery as a positive good. He examines the masters' stress and fears, and how they developed psychologically fatal, slavery-specific defense mechanisms to cope. Through sources such as diaries, letters, autobiographies, and sermons, Marse describes the ways in which slaveholders created a delusional worldview that sanctioned cruel instruments of punishment, and the laws and social policies of domination used to rob Blacks of their human rights. In light of the seismic shift in race relations our nation is experiencing right now, this book is timely because it will advance our understanding of the South's self-defeating romance with racist slavery and its latent and chronic effects. The parallels between the psychology of antebellum slaveholding and today's racism are palpable., Written by a clinical and forensic psychologist, Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the American Southern White Elite Slave Master and His Endurig Impact focuses on the white men who composed the southern planter class. The book is a psychological autopsy of the mind and slaveholding behavior that helps explain the enduring roots of white ......
LC Classification Number
F213.K57 2022

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