Going live to talk about this where I can talk about some of my primary research I have done on dispossession and psychological/existential dispossession.
Here is a thread of resources
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Here is a thread of resources
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First my dissertation drive.google.com/file/d/1f2Z0to…
In it I develop what I called the "matrix of dispossession" which consists of 5 components
psychological
existential
political
material
spiritual
When one experience one of these, they enter the matrix and experience the other 4
In it I develop what I called the "matrix of dispossession" which consists of 5 components
psychological
existential
political
material
spiritual
When one experience one of these, they enter the matrix and experience the other 4
Here is a 3D model of my matrix 
"Psychological dispossession describes how stressors traumatically produce stress for individuals and
communities and that leads to improper grieving and the inability express discontent with being
dispossessed."
communities and that leads to improper grieving and the inability express discontent with being
dispossessed."
"Existential dispossession entails the loss of identity mentally, historically, culturally, politically and socially."
From Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
“Why, they even tried to dispossess us of our dislike of being dispossessed”
“Why, they even tried to dispossess us of our dislike of being dispossessed”
In my mixed method study, I interviewed the descendants of Magruder. One said this about psychological dispossession, she raises an important point. “how do we know the problems my family are dealing with result from dispossession or other forms of
oppression.”
oppression.”
She said this in response to my question on how trauma is carried on from generation to generation. She actually did get professional counseling, so this was just here opinion. My advisor discovered that enslaved kids carried stress similar to grown ups onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…
bringing this all together, the secondary sources, the primary research conducted by my advisor and my study of dispossessed families, I can safely conclude that trauma is passed on from prior generations and this definitely has an impact on our mental health
Now focusing on Black men, we suffer in two ways:
1. Unknowingly
2. Silently
Black men endure the effects of trauma and don't even fully understand what's going on
We suffer silently due to the lack of healthy spaces for us to express ourselves
1. Unknowingly
2. Silently
Black men endure the effects of trauma and don't even fully understand what's going on
We suffer silently due to the lack of healthy spaces for us to express ourselves
We deal with all of this while constantly being blamed, held accountable and interrogated which leads to psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talkin…
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