Our biosocial brains : the cultural neuroscience of bias, power, and injustice / Michele K. Lewis.
| Author/creator | Lewis, Michele K. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Lanham : Lexington Books, [2020] |
| Copyright Date | ©2020 |
| Description | xiii, 203 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Still wretched -- Subhuman to superhuman : cultural neuroscience of illusory blackness -- Cultural neuroscience and poverty : emotional emancipation circle for Black women -- The Black Women in Poverty study : a cultural neuroscience of social injustice -- That female is ratchet : mixed-slurs -- Negative emotionality and disgust activation towards LGBT persons -- Collectivist and individualist brains -- Minding perceptions of Native people -- Killing loneliness, saving humanity -- Environmental injustices -- Forever Fanon -- Future directions. |
| Abstract | "In Our Biosocial Brains, Michele Lewis underscores culture, brain, behavior, and social problems to advocate for a more inclusive cultural neuroscience. Traditional neuroscientists to date have not prioritized studying the impact of power, bias, and injustice on neural processing and the brain's perception of marginalized humans. Lewis explains current events, historical events, and scientific studies, in Our Biosocial Brains. Readers will be drawn to the relevancy of brain science to examples of injustices and social bias. Lewis also argues that incorporating non-western African-Centered Psychology is vital to diversifying research questions and diversifying interpretations of existing brain science, because African-Centered Psychology is not rooted in racist, classist, and exclusionary hegemonic methods. Lewis argues for attention to marginalized populations, regarding the impact of violence, disrespect, othering, slurs, environmental injustice, health, and general disregard on humans' brains and behavior. Using hundreds of peer-reviewed studies and original research, the author presents scientific studies that are integrated with sociocultural explanations to foster wider understanding of how our sociocultural world shapes our brains, and how our brains' responses influence how humans perceive and treat one another."--Publisher's website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-192) and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781498583541 |
| ISBN | 9781498583534 cloth |
| ISBN | 1498583539 cloth |
| ISBN | electronic |