Episode 05: The Effects of Anti-Blackness on Black Women & the Black Family

Course Episode 05

The Effects of Anti-Blackness on Black Women, Birthing People, and the Black Family

Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness: White Psychopathology, Collective Psychosis, and Trauma in America is now a transformative 10-part online course designed to guide learners through the historical, legal, psychological, and sociocultural architecture of anti-Blackness in the United States. Adapted from the groundbreaking text and brought to life through dynamic panel discussions, this self-paced program illuminates how whiteness was legally constructed as a political identity, how anti-Blackness became embedded in every American institution, and how these structures continue to shape contemporary life, behavior, and public policy.

Each video discussion features expert dialogue that breaks down complex historical and psychological concepts into clear, accessible insight—connecting colonial law, social conditioning, epigenetics, and the formation of the white racial frame. Together, the panels analyze the cultural origins of whiteness; the legal codification of human hierarchy from the 1400s forward; the creation of racialized trauma; and the evolution of white psychopathy and collective narcissism as recurring features of American power.

Across the ten modules, participants explore:

The legal invention of whiteness and the color-based caste system that shaped modern institutions

The mechanics of anti-Blackness in religion, law, medicine, education, policing, and economics

The psycho-cognitive defense mechanisms of whiteness and their manifestations in interpersonal and structural contexts

Collective psychosis and white identity formation, grounded in clinical, historical, and sociological research

Black survival responses and intergenerational trauma, including insights from epigenetics and stress biology

Contemporary expressions of racial violence, from policing to media, and how they trace back to earlier legal frameworks

Tools for healing, accountability, and institutional transformation

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