Breathe, baby, breathe: Clearing the way for the emotional emancipation of black people

Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 333-343

  Grills, Cheryl N ^a   Aird, Enola G ^b   Rowe, Daryl ^c  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Community Healing Network Inc ^*  (United States)

^c PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black inferiority; cultural trauma; emotional emancipation; historical trauma; racism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968861351     PISSN: 15327086     EISSN: 1552356X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532708616634839     Document Type: Article

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