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Our Biosocial Brains

The Cultural Neuroscience of Bias, Power, and Injustice

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Our Biosocial Brains

The Cultural Neuroscience of Bias, Power, and Injustice

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In Our Biosocial Brains, Michele Lewis underscores culture, brain, behavior, and social problems to advocate for a more inclusive cultural neuroscience. Traditional neuroscientists to date have not prioritized studying the impact of power, bias, and injustice on neural processing and the brain’s perception of marginalized humans. Lewis explains current events, historical events, and scientific studies, in Our Biosocial Brains. Readers will be drawn to the relevancy of brain science to examples of injustices and social bias. Lewis also argues that incorporating non-western African-Centered Psychology is vital to diversifying research questions and diversifying interpretations of existing brain science, because African-Centered Psychology is not rooted in racist, classist, and exclusionary hegemonic methods. Lewis argues for attention to marginalized populations, regarding the impact of violence, disrespect, othering, slurs, environmental injustice, health, and general disregard on humans’ brains and behavior. Using hundreds of peer-reviewed studies and original research, the author presents scientific studies that are integrated with sociocultural explanations to foster wider understanding of how our sociocultural world shapes our brains, and how our brains’ responses influence how humans perceive and treat one another.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Still Wretched

Chapter 2 Subhuman to Superhuman: Cultural Neuroscience of Illusory Blackness

Chapter 3 Cultural Neuroscience and Poverty: Emotional Emancipation Circle for Black Women

Chapter 4 The Black Women in Poverty Study: Cultural Neuroscience of Social-Injustice

Chapter 5 That Female is Ratchet: Mixed-Slurs

Chapter 6 Negative Emotionality and Disgust Activations Towards LGBT Humans

Chapter 7 Collectivists and Individualists Brains

Chapter 8 Minding Perceptions of Native Peoples

Chapter 9 Killing Loneliness, Saving Humanity

Chapter 10 Environmental Injustices

Chapter 11 Forever Fanon

Chapter 12 Future Directions

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Published Dec 21 2021
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 230
ISBN 9781498583558
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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