Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Study Guide

Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4

Using the Study Guide…………………………………………………………………………………12

Before you Begin: Making the List ……………………………………………………………..14

Chapter 1: I Don’t Even Notice Race ………………………………………………………….16

Chapter 2: Whole to Three-Fifths: Dehumanization …………………………………21

Chapter 3: Crimes Against Humanity …………………………………………………………24

Chapter 4: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) ………………………………….28

Chapter 5: Slavery’s Children………………………………………………………………………32

Chapter 6: Healing ……………………………………………………………………………………….38

Black Male/Female Relationships: Creating the Village……………………………44 Epilogue………………………………………………………………………………………………………..49 References……………………………………………………………………………………………………..50

Suggested Reading List ……………………………………………………………………………….51

“The Study Guide is designed to accompany Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. The goal is to help individuals, groups, and organizations better understand the functional and dysfunctional attitudes and behaviors that have been transmitted to us through multiple generations; behaviors that we are now transmitting to others in our environments of home, school, and work and within the larger society.

The Study Guide encourages and broadens the discussion and implications about the specific issues that were raised in the P.T.S.S. book. Readers will walk away with practical tools to help transform negative attitudes and behaviors into positive ones.” – publisher

64 pages