The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives

In The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives, Aileen Alleyne explores the unheeded dimensions of individual and collective identity trauma. She expands on her striking concept, the ''internal oppressor'' that inhibits self-belief, full agency, and potential. She reworks the psychoanalytic concept of ‘hauntings’, separating it from Freud’s interpretation as unconscious repression, and instead presents it as a living and conscious element of the black trauma burd...