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Psychodynamics of Black Authority—Sentience and Sellouts
Ol’ Skool Civil Rights and Woke Black Lives Matter
DIANE FORBES BERTHOUD, FLORA TAYLOR, and ZACHARY GREEN
The state of Black authority relations is fraught, at the conscious and unconscious levels of examination, with attacks from across race and from within. For the second time in twenty years, a group relations conference focused on the study of Black authority in a multicultural context was offered in the United States. The experience proved to be challenging and enriching and brought to light how the dynamics between leadership, authority, and roles remain complex in the American psyche. “On the Matter of Black Lives,” an intense, experiential conference, was both resistive ...
