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Bell, D. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9133-4927,
2013.
Bearing black.
Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, 5 (1), pp. 122-125.
ISSN 2159-8142
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Abstract
In this essay I critically examine the idea of race in light of the killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American unarmed teenager, in Florida in February 2012. I utilize ideas from liberation psychology, including psychic colonization, and depth psychology, including cultural complex, to explore the racialized black as a colonized, traumatized other. I also use my autoethnographic experience (as a Jamaican who now lives in the United States) to discuss how identities built on race are a source of suffering both when we make others black and when we are made black. Bearing black robs us of the possibility of our humanity. Throughout, I ask several questions about sustaining race as a sociological idea if we truly intend to dismantle racism. I invite us to reconsider race in light of an instance where Rastafarians, a small group of Afro-Jamaicans who express profound race consciousness, determine their own image, not only as black, and as a form of resisting white supremacy.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Description: | Special Issue on Violence against Individuals and Communities: Reflecting on the Trayvon Martin Case. |
| Publication Title: | Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology |
| Creators: | Bell, D. |
| Publisher: | Ball State University, Muncie, IN |
| Date: | 2013 |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Number: | 1 |
| ISSN: | 2159-8142 |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences |
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan |
| Date Added: | 18 Jun 2019 15:02 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2019 15:04 |
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| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/36846 |
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