Nepenthe Theory of Defense Mechanism Functioning and Defensive Behavior in African-U.S. People With Replication and Extension to Psychological Africanity (Racial Identity)

Suicide? (Re)Introducing the Bobby Wright Social–Political Model of African-U.S. Own-Life Taking or African High-Tech Lynching

“…The general etiological framework outlined below implies there will be much depression experienced by African-U.S. people as a result of living under Caucasian civilization. Also, research with college students implies there may be inordinately high amounts of defensive behavior occurring in the African-U.S. population that is related to psychiatric symptomatology with depression showing the strongest relationship (Azibo 2007, 2015a; Azibo, Jackson, and Slater 2004). That many African-U.S. people will continue to be psychologically debilitated across generations because of living under the welter of Caucasian civilization is a foregone conclusion for many (e.g., Azibo 2011, 2014).…”