The Honorable Dr. Amos N. Wilson

RBG Honorable Dr. Amos N. Wilson Studies Collection

(1941 - 1995)

RBG Communiversity

Former Social Caseworker, Psychological Counselor, Supervising Probation Officer, Training

Administrator in the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice, Assistant Professor of

Psychology at the City University of New York, Master Teacher, Organizer, and Author

The late, Honorable Dr. Wilson was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1941. Familiarly referred to

as Brother Amos, he provided the average person with an acute analysis of where we are and the

things that affect us. He served as a council to energize our race and those in positions of influence

as to how to carry out their leadership responsibilities. Dr. Wilson's activities transcended

academia into the fields of business, owning and operating various enterprises in the greater New

York area.

Dr. Wilson's Works:

The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child

THE E-BOOK

Are Black and White Children the same? Is the Black Child merely a White Child who

'happens' to be 'painted' Black? Are there any significant differences in the mental and

physical growth and development of Black and White Children? What effects does race

awareness have on the mental and personality development of Black Children? Are such

leisure time activities as the playing of certain games, watching TV., going to the movies,

listening to the radio, hazardous to the mental health of Black Children? Is the use of Black

English a sign of mental inferiority? Why do Black Children generally score lower than

White Children on I.Q. tests? Do Black parents socialize their children to be inferior to

White Children? Why have integrated schools and busing failed so many Black Children? If

you have been looking for a single source which deals with these and related controversial

questions from a black perspective, then this book may be the book for you. For between its

covers, The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child, the first of a UBCS series of

books dealing with the growth, development, and education of the black child, in a scholarly

but readily understandable way, forthrightly confronts these and other issues.

Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children

THE E-BOOK

Afrikan children are naturally precocious and gifted. They begin life with a 'natural head

start.' However, their natural genius it too frequently underdeveloped and misdirected by

(1) the fact that the racist and imperialist status quo politically mandates their intellectual

under-achievement and social maladaptiveness; (2) belief in the myth that intelligence is

fixed at birth and that Afrikans are innately less intelligent than Europeans; (3) a lack of

knowledge of their positively unique developmental psychology; (4) a lack of confidence in

their ability to equal or surpass the intellectual performance of any other ethnic group; and

(5) the general lack of infant and early childhood educational experiences which stimulate,

sustain and actualize their abundant human potential. Awakening the Natural Genius of Black

Children provides effective means by which these political and social maladies may be fully

remedies. Intelligence is not fixed at birth. The quality of children’s educational

experiences during infancy and early childhood are substantially related to their measured

intelligence, academic achievement and prosocial behavior. In this volume, Amos N. Wilson,

author of the bestseller, The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child, surveys the daily

routines, child-rearing practices, parent-child interactions, games and play materials,

parent-training and pre-school programs which have made demonstrably outstanding and

lasting differences in the intellectual, academic and social performance of Black children.

Black-On-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation

in Service of White Domination

THE E-BOOK

The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination represents a

distinct milestone in criminology and Afrikan Studies. Its explanatory perspectives on the

sociopsychological and politicoeconomic causes of Black-on-Black Violence are exceptionally

insightful, incisive and iconoclastic. The Psychodynamics of the Black-on-Black criminal are

presented here with a depth and clarity rarely seen before.

The main thesis of this book is that the operational existence of Black-on-Black in the

United States is psychologically and economically mandated by the White American-

dominated status quo. The criminalization of the Black American male is a psychopolitically

engineered process designed to maintain the dependency and relative powerlessness of the

Afrikan American and Pan-African communities.

Black-on-Black Violence, however, moves far beyond blaming the victimizer. Its meticulous

and painstaking exposure of the psycho-social and intrapsychical dynamics of Black-on-Black

criminality is startlingly revealing. Its analyses of the collective psyches of both the White

American and Black American communities are unsparingly and powerfully instructive. The

reader will not be left unmoved.

Although Professor Wilson argues that Black-on-Black Violence is orchestrated by White

America’s need to maintain its oppressive domination of Black America, and of Western

Europe’s need to continue-without end-its economic exploitation of Africa, he also contends

that the ending of Black-on-Black violence is the primary, if not sole, responsibility of

African people in America and abroad. This book, in revealing the anatomy of Black-on-Black

violence, simultaneously lays the practical, intellectual and political foundations for its social

eradication.

Understanding Black Male Adolescent Violence: Its Remediation and

Prevention

In this ground-breaking volume, Amos Wilson shows in brilliant detail how American society

creates and sustains Black-on-Black adolescent criminality in its inner-cities across the

United States. He boldly asserts that Black-on-Black adolescent violence is rooted in

historical and contemporary White-on-Black violence. He further argues that White-on-

Black violence induces in the Afrikan American community a pervasive false consciousness,

one which interacts with the adolescent crises of Black males and the socioeconomic

conditions which typify inner-city communities to spawn criminality and violence. More than

an explanatory analysis of Black male adolescent criminality, Understanding Black

Adolescent Male Violence provides very practical and workable remedial and preventative

approaches to this problem which threatens the vitality of the Afrikan American

community.

The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History,

Psychiatry, and the Politics of White Supremacy

This book presents two ground-breaking lectures by Amos Wilson. The first, European

Historiography and Oppression Exposed: An Afrikan Perspective and Analysis, was among

the first contemporary analyses which delineated the role Eurocentric history-writing plays

in rationalizing European oppression of Afrikan consciousness. It explicates why we should

study history, how history-writing shapes the psychology of peoples and individuals, how

Eurocentric history as mythology creates historical amnesia in Afrikans in order to rob

them of the material, mental, social and spiritual wherewithal for overcoming poverty and

oppression. Moreover, this engrossing lectures the relationship between the rediscovery and

rewriting of Afrikan history and achievement of liberation and prosperity by Afrikan

peoples. The second lecture, Eurocentric Political Dogmatism: Its Relationship to the Mental

Health Diagnosis of Afrikan People, advances the contention that the alleged mental and

behavioral maladaptiveness of oppressed Afrikan peoples is a political-economic necessity

for the maintenance of White domination and imperialism. Furthermore, it indicts the

Eurocentric mental health establishment for entering into collusion with the Eurocentric

political establishment to oppress and exploit Afrikan peoples by officially sanctioning these

egregious practices through its misdiagnosing, mislabeling, and mistreating of Afrikan

peoples’ behavioral reactions to their oppression and their efforts to win their freedom and

independence.

Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for

the Twenty-First Century

Blueprint for Black Power details a master plan for the power revolution necessary for Black

survival in the 21st century. Blueprints posits that an African American/Caribbean/Pan-

African bloc would be most potent for the generation and delivery of Black power in the

United States and the World to counter White and Asian power networks. Wilson frames

this imperative by deconstructing the U.S. elite power structure of government, political

parties, think tanks, corporations, foundations, media, interest groups, banking and foreign

investment particulars. Potentially strong Black institutions as the church, media and think

tanks; industry; collectives such as investment clubs and credit unions; rotating credit

associations such as Afrikan-originated esusu, tontine and partner are analyzed. Pan-

Afrikanism, Black Nationalism, ethnocentrism and reparation are assessed, often misused

and underused financial institutions as securities, mutual funds, stocks, bonds, underwriting,

and incubators advocated, thus elucidating oft-negated opportunities for economic

empowerment.

Afrikan-Centered Consciousness versus The New World Order: Garveyism

in the Age of Globalism

In two masterful lectures contained within the pages of this modest text, Dr. Wilson

challenges the all too pervasive assumption and false perception that the "New World

Order" is somehow ordained -- that if Afrikan people are to progress, they have no other

alternative but to remain colonized by White-Western interests. This of course is patently

false. Dr. Wilson debunks this myth with an insightful analysis of the Legacy of Marcus

Garvey and the proven validity of Afrikan-Centered Consciousness as necessary

psychological and material tools in the struggle for true liberation.

Dr. Wilson Speaks On:

The Psychological Alienation of Black America

The Impact of the Media on the Afrikan Psyche

Black-On-Black Violence

The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness

The Transformation of Afrikan Consciousness

The Euro-American Roots of Violence, Criminality, & Terrorism

Special Education and Black Children

Riot or Revolt: An Urban Analysis

Global White Supremacy