CANT CULTURE: The Social Engineering of Black Male Failure and a Solution to the Madness
Language: English
Published by IAAP, 2016
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- Title
- CANT CULTURE: The Social Engineering of Black Male Failure and a Solution to the Madness
- Author
- Fields Ph.D., Andre R.
- Publisher
- IAAP
- Publication year
- 2016
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- Brand New
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 0692874097
- ISBN 13
- 9780692874097
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- 0.33 kilograms
An Open Synopsis on CANT CULTURE.
MALADAPTIVE COPING + INTERNALIZED STIGMA = CANT CULTURE
CANT CULTURE was created by ideas. It was built around the collective Black male’s idea that, “the world is unfair to us”, “we have no control over our futures”, and “therefore we have little worth”. This idea was built into the Black male psyche via the social mechanisms of American Racism, National Stigma, and Systemic Discrimination.
MALADAPTIVE COPING
The CANT CULTURE ideology expresses itself through goal avoidance, withdrawal, self-sabotage, minimal long-term planning, and the avoidance of responsibility. These counter-productive coping behaviors serve the purpose of COLLECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTION to an unfair and threatening social environment. These collective maladaptive coping behaviors serve the purpose of minimizing the fear, stress, sadness, anger, and frustration connected to the frequent and intense experiencing of social stigma and marginalization.
Race-related stress, fear, frustration, sadness, and anger are minimized through CANT CULTURE’S creation of a set of norms, customs, values, and beliefs that are different from those of the discriminating mainstream group. Black males who are psychologically immersed in the beliefs, norms, customs, and expressions of CANT CULTURE are role models for each other as they inform and inspire one another with distorted messages, failure-laced expectations, and dysfunctional forms of self-expression. Guided by the beliefs, expectations, and norms of CANT CULTURE, young Black males are eventually driven to obtain identities that are characterized by socially counter-productive forms of expression.
INTERNALIZED STIGMA
When a Black male internalizes stigma, he downloads a combination of psychological tendencies and personality traits that will predispose him to social failure. These psychological tendencies and personality traits (i.e. the fear of failure, anticipated race-related catastrophe, chronic race-related pessimism, recurring sense of race-related detachment from success, etc.) combine with maladaptive coping strategies (i.e. self-sabotage, avoidance, withdrawal, escapism, etc.) to compel Black males to pursue socially inappropriate goals (misguided motivations) that are ineffective as it pertains to acquiring the American Dream.
This leads to a developing Black boy investing his mental and emotional energy on the standards, goals, aspirations, and pursuits of a counterculture that psychologically embraces failure and underachievement. This state of existence negatively influences general decision-making, long-term planning, impulse control, emotion regulation, etc.
ESCAPING CANT CULTURE
The purpose of this book is to re-socialize Black males into a classification of American citizen that is capable of success and expected to succeed. The identity and image of these prototypical Black males will be linked to a set of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that will reverse the trend of negative life outcomes Black males characteristically encounter.
Andre Fields, Ph.D.
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