The cultural betrayal of Black women and girls : a Black feminist approach to healing from sexual abuse / by Jennifer M. Gómez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gómez, Jennifer M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual abuse victims--Psychology.

Sexual abuse victims.

African American women--Violence against.

African American women.

Women, Black--Violence against.

Women, Black.

Rape culture.

Men, Black--Psychology.

Men, Black.

Psychic trauma--Treatment.

Psychic trauma.

Racism--Psychological aspects.

Racism.

Feminist theory.

Black or African American--psychology.

Sex Offenses.

Sexual Trauma.

Psychological Trauma.

Medical Subjects:

Black or African American--psychology.

Sex Offenses.

Sexual Trauma.

Psychological Trauma.

Racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages))

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2023]

Summary:

"This book focuses specifically on cultural betrayal sexual trauma, or sexual abuse within the Black community. Though cultural betrayal sexual trauma occurs across genders, for brevity and to centralize Black women and girls, the term cultural betrayal sexual trauma in the current book refers only to Black male–perpetrated sexual abuse against Black women and girls. Cultural betrayal trauma theory provides a framework for understanding Black women and girl survivors of cultural betrayal sexual trauma, including the roles of cultural and societal contexts. The primary audience for this book is academic, research, and clinical psychologists, as well as researchers and clinicians from social work, sociology, gender and feminist studies, public health, psychiatry, anthropology, Africana studies, and other allied professionals in fields interested in understanding the impact of cultural betrayal sexual trauma against Black women and girls within the context of racism and intersectional oppression. The first half of the book provides basic research on White supremacy, anti-Black racism, intersectional oppression, sexual abuse, cultural betrayal trauma, (intra)cultural pressure, and violent silencing. As such, Black women and girls were centered, while the causes of our struggle were externalized: Anti-Black racism and intersectional oppression are largely structural, whereas cultural betrayal sexual trauma and its aftermath are mostly contextual and cultural-with interpersonal, structural, and societal influences. The author applies this knowledge in the second half of the book to culturally competent trauma therapy, radical healing in the Black community, and institutional courage to change the world."--(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

What's racism got to do with it? Black women and girls, sexual abuse, and liberation

Black women and girls: Racism and intersectional oppression

The "rape problem" and secondary marginalization against Black women and girls

Cultural betrayal trauma theory: Framework, evidence, and future directions

Culturally competent trauma therapy: Holistic healing

Radical healing in the Black community

Institutional courage to change the world

Conclusion: What does it all mean? From micro- to macrolevel change

References

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2023.

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Other Format:

Print version: Cultural betrayal of Black women and girls

ISBN:

1433838885

9781433838880

1433838893

9781433838897

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