Appealing Because He Is Appalling by Tamari Kitossa

Author:Tamari Kitossa [Kitossa, Tamari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781772125436
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Publisher: The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press
Published: 2021-06-10T00:00:00+00:00

McInnis makes it clear that black psychology is not anti-white even though white psychology is anti-black. McInnis is informed by Wade Nobles (1986), an African American psychologist, who asserts that what is essential for black people is the reclamation, reascension, revitalization, and affirmation of “African Beingness” and African culture. Nobles also stresses the importance of issuing a corrective challenge to Eurocentric psychology. McInnis (2018) describes her use of African symbols and artifacts in her sessions to connect with her clients of African descent. For the African-centred model of the African self, McInnis develops, for example, the divine self as a spiritual self that has a purpose in life. Within the Christian context, one is seen as being created in the image of God, but adorned in black skin. As God created humankind in his image, so too must black people’s representation of God be black, for “God has created man in such a way that man’s own destiny is inseparable from his relation to the creator” (Cone, 1997, p. 156).

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