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How I Know White People Are Crazy and Other Stories: Notes from a Frustrated Black Psychologist
Psychologist Jonathan Mathias Lassiter combines memoir, cultural criticism, history, and clinical insight to examine the racial assumptions embedded in American psychology. Through personal stories and professional experience, he describes how whiteness can distort institutions, relationships, diagnosis, research, and definitions of normality while placing the burden of adaptation on Black people. The book uses humor and frustration alongside scholarship to expose patterns that often remain unnamed. Lassiter calls for a psychology capable of recognizing structural racism, listening to Black experience, and supporting forms of healing that do not treat oppression as an individual defect.
- Publisher
- Legacy Lit
- Publication date
- 2025-11-04
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780306833052
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