9.2.21 readings

Readings

• ·       Mukoma Wa Ngugi: What Decolonizing the Mind Means Today. 2018. Literary Hub. Available online: https://lithub.com/mukoma-wa-ngugi-what-decolonizing-the-mind-means-today/

o   Don’t get hung up on the literary criticism details, get the gist

• ·       “Introduction – Invisible Pioneers: ‘Culture and Personality’ Reconsidered.” In Psychological Anthropology: A Reader on Self in Culture, edited by Robert Levine.

o   --skim this for broad contours of the culture and personality school

• ·       “Postcolonial Disorders: Reflections on Subjectivity in the Contemporary World,” by Byron Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, and Sarah Pinto. In Postcolonial Disorders, UC Press, 2008.

o   --read pages 2 – 11 on subjectivity, postcolonial, and disorders

• ·       Wu HY. “World citizenship and the emergence of the social psychiatry project of the World Health Organization, 1948-c.1965.” Hist Psychiatry. 2015 Jun;26(2):166-81. doi: 10.1177/0957154X14554375. PMID: 26022467.

o   --skim this for context.