Learning and Overstanding Black Psychology with Dr. Na'Im Akbar

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Learning and Overstanding Black
Psychology with Dr. Na'im Akbar
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"Black People in America have a much greater inner power than they
realize, but they must re-discover themselves in order to use it."
Dr. Na'im Akbar has been acclaimed by Essence Magazine as "one of the world's
preeminent Psychologists and a pioneer in the development of an African-centered
approach in modern psychology." Akbar has served as Associate Professor at Norfolk
State University, was Chairman of the Morehouse College Psychology Department and
is currently on the faculty in the Department of Psychology at Florida State University in
Tallahassee, Florida. . He has served on the Boards of Directors of a variety of important
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civic and professional organizations, including several terms on the Board of the National
Association of Black Psychologists, which he was elected president in 1987. He has served on
the editorial board of the Journal of Black Studies and for eight years was the associate editor of
the Journal of Black Psychology.
Akbar is a graduate of the University of Michigan, with both undergraduate and graduate
degrees in Psychology and has received many honors for his progressive and landmark
contributions to his specialized studies of the psychology of the African American. Among these
are the "Annual Member Award" and recognition as a "Distinguished Black Psychologists" by
the National Association of Black Psychologists for his outstanding scholarship and research in
African Psychology.
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The published volumes of Dr. Akbar’s works are excellent illustrations of the unique and special
approach he has taken to the role of an activist scholar. His volumes are targeted to a mass
audience. Though the concepts that he presents are highly sophisticated, they are presented in
a concise and simple way that readers with minimal education and possibly no familiarity with
mainstream psychology will be able to comprehend the ideas from his books and increase their
understanding of themselves. Though his scholarly status is unquestioned this area of his work
is targeting a much broader audience than would likely encounter his works prepared for
advanced students, professional colleagues and for the dialogue of the academy. He feels very
strongly that truly relevant ideas should be available to as wide an audience as possible in order
that they may study these ideas and apply them to their lives and to their communities. The
measure of success for this aspect of his scholarship becomes the number of people from
various walks of life that have been able to study these ideas, change their lives and their world.
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Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery Click to order via
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Paperback: 61 pages Publisher: New Mind Productions (April 1, 1984)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 093382100X
ISBN-13: 978-0933821002
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
In this book you will learn how to break the chains of your mental slavery
by ordering this new book by one of the world's outstanding experts on
the African-American mind.
Visions for Black MenClick to order via Amazon
ISBN: 0935257012 Pub. Date: December 1992 Format: Textbook Paperback,
90pp
Publisher: Mind Productions & Associates
How do we restore African manhood to those who American society has
robbed of their humanity? What is the difference between a male, a boy
and a man? This book, read by thousands of men and women…..
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Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slaver Click to order via
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ISBN: 0935257055 Pub. Date: June 1996 Format: Textbook Paperback, 79pp
Publisher: Mind Productions & Associates
Edition Description: REVISED
Presents a penetrating and concise analysis of the lingering effects of
slavery and racial religious images on the psychological functional of
African-Americans.
Natural Psychology and Human Transformation Click to order via
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ISBN: 0935257047 Pub. Date: February 1995 Format: Paperback, 54pp
Publisher: Mind Productions & Associates
In this boolk, Akbar asserts that we are nmore than the sum total of our
actions and more than the makeup of our physical selves. He also
indicates that the essence of us is spiritual and that, as creations of God,
we have growth and development potential that reaches far beyond our
limited--and--limiting--perception of ourselves.
Know Thy Self Click to order via Amazon
ISBN: 0935257063 Pub. Date: January 1999 Format: Textbook
Paperback, 83pp
Publisher: Mind Productions & Associates
"This exciting book lays out guidelines for establishing a genuine
curriculum in self-knowledge and plainly identifies that the development
of consciousness of oneself is a process that emerges from exposure to
the fields of knowledge that help people to know their origins, their nature
and their destiny. African people around the world remain in a state of
semi-captivity because we have accepted a miseducation that teaches us
the knowledge of other people’s "self." Such a system empowers those
who come out knowing themselves and handicaps those who have no knowledge of self. The
miseducated are merely trained and remain under the control of the educated masters."
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The Community of Self Click to order via Amazon
ISBN: 0935257004 Pub. Date: August 1985 Age Range: Young Adult
Format: Textbook Paperback, 80pp
Publisher: Mind Productions & Associates
Edition Description: REVISED
Dr. Akbar presents the structure and functioning of the human self and
discusses the process of mental development and self-improvement of the
African-American community specifically.
Light from Ancient Africa Click to order via Amazon
ISBN: 0935257020 Pub. Date: August 1994 Format: Textbook
Paperback, 85pp
Publisher: Mind Productions & Associates
Light from Ancient Africa is a critical contribution to what might be called
the ‘Re-Africanization of Psychology Project.’ It was within this project that
we came to realize that the notion of human psychology was and remains
an African invention… In this book, Na’im Akbar provides the reader with
a clear and concise understanding of the African (Khemetic) origins of
psychology, provokes us to think deeply about the real meanings that
Africa gave to psychology, and provides the insightful guidelines to
modern-day implications and applications of the field. Foreword by Wade Nobles
Akbar Papers in African Psychology Click to order via Amazon
ISBN: 0935257098 Pub. Date: January 2003 Format: Textbook
Paperback
Publisher: Mind Productions & Associates
"African Psychology is not a thing, but a place-a view, a perspective, a
way of observing. " It is a perspective that is lodged in the historical
primacy of the human view from the land that is known as Africa. It is a
place that we have discovered as those who lost their way and have
found a map to get back home. The papers in this volume represent Dr.
Akbar's unique contribution to the conceptualization of this place or
perspective that we have identified as "African Psychology."
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