Robert Scoby
University of Arizona
Rev. Elwood McDowell

From Negro to African American

A New Psychological Approach

This paper is dedicated and written for Elwood McDowell, a genius of immense originality whose ideas, scholarship, and deep intellect embody what is best in Afro-American Psychology

…The Negro's mind has been brought under the control of his oppressor…When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand or go younder. He will find his ‘proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit… (Woodson, 1934). From the quote above it is apparent that all of what the African American has faced in the past and will continue in our future is all based on psychology. The psychology that is being referred to is of the suppressors which resulting in how......

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Title: From Negro To African American
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