Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South / Anne C. Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Anne C., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self--Southern States--History.

Self.

Identity (Psychology)--Southern States--History.

Identity (Psychology).

Segregation--Southern States--History.

Segregation.

Psychology--Study and teaching--Southern States--History.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 a society built on racial differences, raising questions about human potential, as psychology did, was unsettling.As Anne Rose lays out with

Contents:

How Southerners thought about the mind and its ills before psychology

The promise of the child and the limits of progress

The troubled personalities of the South

In the Southern borderland of mind and soul

The short life of Southern psychology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-327-1

979-88-908832-2-3

1-4696-0563-5

0-8078-9409-5

OCLC:

435526753