Marse A Psychological Portrait of the Southern Slave Master and His Legacy of White Supremacy

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,

ISBN:	9781633887572
Publisher:	Prometheus Books
Imprint:	Prometheus Books
Published date:	04 Apr 2022
DEWEY:	306.3620975
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	300
Weight:	708g
Height:	164mm
Width:	235mm
Spine width:	40mm

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