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Joy DeGruy

active from 2000s (book reported as new in 2006)

United States (Portland, Oregon)

Social work researcher and longtime Portland State University assistant professor whose book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome argues that slavery's trauma has intergenerational effects on African Americans.

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Aerial view of Portland, Oregon, 2018, the city where DeGruy taught at Portland State University
Credit: Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress. License: Public domain (Highsmith Archive, LOC: no known restrictions).

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Sources

  1. Emporia State University News, "Expert to present on Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome" (2018) (Primary source)
  2. AlterNet / In These Times, Silja J.A. Talvi, "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome" (2006) (Reference)
  3. Joy DeGruy (own website), "About" (Primary source)

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