Amos N. Wilson
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Amos N. Wilson | |
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| Born | Amos Nelson Wilson September 19, 1941 Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States |
| Died | January 14, 1995 (aged 53) |
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| Fields | Psychology, Sociology, Black Studies |
| Institutions | CUNY, NY Institute of Technology, Afrikan World InfoSystems |
Amos N. Wilson (September 19,1941 – January 14, 1995) was a pioneering Black/African psychologist, social theorist, Pan-African thinker, scholar and author. Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941, Wilson completed his undergraduate degree at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He later migrated to New York where he mastered at The New School of Social Research before attaining his Ph.D. from Fordham University, in the field of General Theoretical Psychology.
Wilson availed himself for numerous appearances at educational, cultural and political organizations such as the First World Alliance, the Afrikan Poetry Theatre, Afrikan Echoes, House of Our Lord Church, the Patrice Lumumba Coalition, the Slave Theatre, and CEMOTAP to name just a few. His travels took him throughout the United States, to Canada and the Caribbean.
Published works
- The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child (NY: Africana Research Publications, 1978),
- Black-on-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination (NY: Afrikan World InfoSystems, 1990),
- Understanding Black Male Adolescent Violence: Its Prevention and Remediation (NY: Afrikan World InfoSystems, 1992),
- Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children (NY: Afrikan World InfoSystems, 1992),
- The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy (NY: Afrikan World InfoSystems, 1993), and
- Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century (NY: Afrikan World InfoSystems, 1998).