The Psychology of Self-hatred & Self-defeat

“Self-hatred has profound historical origins that may be traced
all the way back to colonial history in the fifteenth century and
beyond. Amos Wilson traces the history of slavery from biblical
antiquity, with the curse of Ham in the Old Testament, through
the Middle Ages, enslavement, Jim Crow sadism, and up to the
present day. This experience has had a long-term influence on
the development, moulding, and defining of the African
American personality, as well as the African personality in
general. This essay aims to investigate this evolution in all
of its facets and to reclaim the African (sometimes written
Afrikan) mentality. Wilson strives to correct this psycho-
historical malady with surgical precision in this essay.”