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, New York Institute of Technology, Afrikan World InfoSystems |
Amos N. Wilson (September 19,1941 – January 14, 1995) was a pioneering African-American psychologist, social theorist, Pan-African thinker, scholar and author. Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941, Wilson completed his undergraduate degree at the acclaimed Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, mastered at The New School of Social Research, and attained his doctorate degree from Fordham University.
Wilson also 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. He wrote articles and papers in the areas of developmental psychology, criminology, psychiatry, and general theoretical psychology. His major works include The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child, Black-on-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination, and Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century.
Political views
Wilson believed the power differential between Whites and Blacks was the major social problem of the Twenty-First century. He viewed this power differential, and not white “racist” attitudes, as principally responsible for the existence of racism, domination, oppression, and deprivation in the lives and interpersonal relations of African-Americans and African people.
Books
- The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child (1978)
- Black-on-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination (1990)
- Understanding Black Male Adolescent Violence: Its Prevention and Remediation (1992)
- Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children (1992)
- The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy (1993)
- Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century (1998)
- Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism (1999)