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Amos N. Wilson

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Dr. Amos N. Wilson

"When we get into social amnesia - into forgetting our history - we also forget or misinterpret the history and motives of others as well as our motives. The way to learn of our own creation, how we came to be what we are, is getting to know ourselves. It is through getting to know the self intimately that we get to know the forces that shaped us as a self. Therefore knowing the self becomes a knowledge of the world. A deep study of Black History is the most profound way to learn about the psychology of Europeans and to understand the psychology that flows from their history.

If we don’t know ourselves, not only are we a puzzle to ourselves; other people are also a puzzle to us as well. We assume the wrong identity and identify ourselves with our enemies. If we don’t know who we are then we are whomever somebody tells us we are." —the late Dr. Amos N. Wilson, an Afrocentric psychologist (The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness," Afrikan World InfoSystems, New York (1993) p. 38)

Afrikan Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism (Sababu N. Plata (Editor)
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ISBN: 1879164094
Format: Paperback, 141pp
Pub. Date: December 1999
Publisher: Afrikan World InfoSystems

Though the preparation of a book is a highly social process, it takes place in considerable isolation. Throughout its gestation, the unfurling of life's chances and challenges stop not for a moment. This effort squarely fits into that mold. The closing of 1998 and the opening months of 1999 were fraught with heart-wrenching agony and shock. Just as we celebrated the punblishing of Blueprint for Black Power, the ancestors called HOME freedom fighters John Henrik Clarke, Roy Canton, Kwame Ture and Samori Marksman. Personal old friend Paul "Bucky" Buckmire and our family childhood friend, a young Elvin Roach, both died suddenly. Bucky would often sit aftrernoons and have grand conversations of further endeavors in Pan-Afrikan service. Vin, a true friend, little known except in the immediate circle of Arima, was like the other distinguished warriors, everpresent in all manner of need.. Indeed, they graced us with meritiorious service. May they RISE LIKE RA! We mourned, venerated their life expresiions, and then, it was time to reassume revolution's challenges. And this this long-mused publication was elevated to the fore. We rallied veterans and new recruits alike to blast into being--in record--these most compelling of Dr. Wilson's discoursess. Embrace this the fruit of the vineyard.

Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children
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ISBN: 1879164019
Format: Paperback, 130pp
Pub. Date: June 1993
Publisher: Afrikan World InfoSystems

Afrikan children are naturally precocious and gifted. They begin life with a natural head start. However, thier natural genius it to frequently underdeveloped amd misdirected by the fact that the racist and imperialist status quo politically mandates thier intellectual under achievement is fixed at birth and that Afrikans are innately less intelligent than Europeans.

Black-on-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination (Sababu N. Plata (Editor)
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ISBN: 1879164000
Format: Paperback, 204pp
Pub. Date: June 1993
Publisher: Afrikan World InfoSystems

BLACK on BLACK VIOLENCE represents a distinct milestone in criminology and Afrikan Studies. Its explanatory perspectives on the Sociopsycho-logical and politicoeconomic causes of Black-on-Black violence are exceptionally insightful, incisive, and iconoclastic. The psychodynamics of the Black-on-Black criminal are presented here with a depth and clarity rarely seen before.

Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 187916406X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: January 1998
Publisher: Afrikan World Book Distributor

Afrikan life into the coming millenia is imperiled by White and Asian power. True power must nest in the ownership of the real estate wherever Afrikan people dwell. Economic destiny determines biological destiny. Blueprint for Black Power details a master plan for the power revolution necessary for Black survival

in the 21st century. White treatment of Afrikan Americans despite a myriad of theories explaining White behavior, ultimately rests on the fact that they can. They posses the power to do so. Such a power differential must be neutralized if Blacks are to prosper in the 21st century.

Afrikan Americans earn a take-home salary of near $500 billion yearly, not to mention the millions they generate. Yet they retain only 5% of this income. Viewed as a nation, their economy would be the 8th to 9th largest in the world! Afrikan Americans possess enourmous potential to amass effectual social, political and economic power and this control their destiny and secure their liberation. Professor Wilson argues thata were the Africkan American community to see itself as indeed a de facto nation, then its scourges of poverty, disemployment, crime, mis-education, wanton consumerism, alienated/deficit spending, mis-leadership and powerlessness would be drastically reduced, if not eliminated.

Blueprint posits that an Afrikan American/Caribbean/Pan-Afrikan bloc would be most potent for the generation and delivery of Black Power in the United States and the world to counter White and Asian power networks. Wilson frames this imperative by deconstructing the U.S. elite power structure of government, political parties, think tanks, corporations, foundations, media, interest groups, banking and foreign investment particulars. Potentially strong Black institutions as the church, media, think tanks; industry; collectives such as investment clubs and credit unions; rotating credit associations such as Afrikan-originated esusu, tontine. and partner are analyzed. Pan-Afrikanism, Black Nationalism, ethocentrisim and reparation are assessed, often misusedand underused financial institutions as securities, mutual funds, stocks, bonds, underwriting, and incubators advocated, thus elucidating oft-negated opportunities for economic empowerment. Blueprint deligitmates White power and roundly critiques the Black sycophantic bourgeois religious leadership establishments for their historic moralizing of Black socio-economic conditions and programmatic ineptitude. Wilson warns the consequences of Black obsolescence --biological annihilation!

A ptly titled, Blueprint for Black Power stops not at critique but prescribes radical, practical theories, frameworks and approaches for true power. It gives a biting look into Black potentially. This 900-page treatise is a journey into the protracted.

Developmental Psychology of the Black Child
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ISBN: 0933524013
Format: Paperback, 216pp
Pub. Date: December 1978
Publisher: Africana Research Publications

Are Black and White Children the same?

Are there any significant differences in the mental and physical growth and development of Black and White Children?

Are such leisure time activities as the playing of certain games, watching T.V., going to the movies, listening to the radio, hazardous to the mental health of Black Children?

Why do Black Children generally score lower than White Children on I.Q. tests?

Is the Black Child merely a White Child who "happens" to be "painted" Black?

What effects does race awareness have on the mental and personality development of Black Children?

Is the use of Black English a sign of mental inferiority?

Do Black parents socialize their children to be inferior to White Children?
Why have integrated schools and busing failed so many Black Children?

If you have been looking for a single source which deals with these and related controversial questions from a black perspective, then this book may be the book for you. For between its covers, THE DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY OF THE BLACK CHILD, the first of a UBCS series of books dealing with the growth, development, and education of the black child; the firstr book which deals exclusively with the physical and psychosocial development of the black child, in a scholarly but readily understandable way, forthrightly confronts these and other issues. The seminal and thought-provoking book goes beyond other such attempts of this typw in a variety of ways: (1) It presents many little known facts and surprising details about the development of the black child. (2) It presents an honest, poignant, spirited and in-depth description of the world of the black child from conception to school age. (3) It explores in a unique way the world of the black parent. And (4) it tenaciously pursues the implications of the issues it deals with and makes positive recommendations for evaluating them.

Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy Sababu N. Plata (Editor)
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ISBN: 1879164027
Format: Paperback, 139pp
Pub. Date: January 1993
Publisher: Afrikan World InfoSystems

[Exposes] the role Eurocentric history-writing plays in rationalizing European oppression of Afrikan peoples and in the falsification of Afrikan consciousness ... [and contends] that the alleged mental and behavioral maladaptiveness of oppressed Afrikan peoples is a political-economic necessity for the maintenance of White domination and imperialism.

Understanding Black Adolescent Male Violence: Its Remediation and Prevention
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ISBN: 1879164035
Format: Paperback, 92pp
Pub. Date: June 1993
Publisher: Afrikan World InfoSystems

In this ground-breaking volume, Amos Wilson shows in brilliant detail how American society creates and sustains Black-on-Black adolescent criminality in its inner-cities across the United States. He boldly asserts that Black-on-Black adolescent violence is rooted in historical and contemporary WHITE-on-Black violence.

Black on Black Violence
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Title: Amos N. Wilson "Black on Black Violence"
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Running Time: Aprox 62 mins
Tracks: 2
Catagory: Psychology
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