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Asking the question, Are people with dark skin truly different?, these essays consider the history, science, and psychology of melanin. With contributions from such noted writers and scholars as Hunter Adams, Ann Brown, Richard King, and Owen Moore, these writings explore the history of people with surface skin melanin. The genetic influence of melanin on culture and learning is also addressed, with a specific look at the unfair treatment of African American children in schools that has led to poor IQ test scores and disproportionate numbers of African American children in special education classes.
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Edited by Edward Bynum
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DARKNESS HAS ALWAYS MATTERED
10 July 2008
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Darkness mattered in the creation of America. Nearly all major American historians paint America as a child of European consciousness. It is not. Africans have been here before the beginning of the nation; and at the beginning the African population outnumbered the European in many sections of the country. The impact of Africa on the culture, religion and popular culture of the nation makes America not New Europe as opposed to Old Europe. It makes America a whole new world, indeed. Darkness Matters gives us a sense of how the impact is grounded in the neuroMelanin, the biospirituality of the nation. The presence of African Americans in such large numbers have given all Americans unique ways of connecting with emotions, mind, each other and with the inner self.
As Brazil and South Africa -the other two Afro-European cultures of the world-- emerge we'll see from them a lot of what has come only from us. In the new, emerging global economy (village, really because only a certain aspect of the American psyche see the coming together of peoples primarily as an economic phenomenon rather than a spiritual one) --in the new emerging global village, America will maintain itself as a leader only if it can continue to give "the gift of spirit," as W.E. B. Dubois called it. This book by Edward Bruce Bynum, and his colleagues, gives us ample scientific and archaeological background, and ample reason why we should not continue to squander the gift.
As Brazil and South Africa -the other two Afro-European cultures of the world-- emerge we'll see from them a lot of what has come only from us. In the new, emerging global economy (village, really because only a certain aspect of the American psyche see the coming together of peoples primarily as an economic phenomenon rather than a spiritual one) --in the new emerging global village, America will maintain itself as a leader only if it can continue to give "the gift of spirit," as W.E. B. Dubois called it. This book by Edward Bruce Bynum, and his colleagues, gives us ample scientific and archaeological background, and ample reason why we should not continue to squander the gift.
Why Darkness Matters: The Power of Melanin in the Brain
23 May 2012
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This is a very informative and helpful book. I have learned a lot and seriously recommend that everyone read it!
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