Brown skin, white minds : Filipino-American postcolonial psychology (with commentaries) = Kayumanggi balat, puti isip / E.J.R. David, Ph. D., Department of Psychology, University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Alaska Joint Ph. D. Program in Clinical-Community Psychology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Part 1 : In the beginning. The Tao : pre-colonial history -- The Catholic convent : Spanish colonialism -- Hollywood : United States colonialism -- Neocolonialism and contemporary oppression -- -- Part 2 : The aftermath. Colonial mentality : psychological impact of colonialism -- Automaticity of colonial mentality -- "Walang Kapwa" : the loss of indigenous values -- Colonial mentality and the Filipino -- / American identity -- Mental health implications of colonial mentality -- -- Part 3 : Decolonization in a modern world. Clinical services for colonial mentality -- Filipino -- / American decolonization experience (FADE) : FADE-ing away our colonial mentality -- Postcolonial psychological research.

Filipino Americans have a long and rich history with and within the United States, and they are currently the second largest Asian group in the country. However, very little is known about how their historical and contemporary relationship with America may shape their psychological experiences. The most insidious psychological consequence of their historical and contemporary experiences is colonial mentality or internalized oppression. Some common manifestations of this phenomenon are described below: Skin-whitening products are used often by Filipinos in the Philippines to make their skins lighter. Skin whitening clinics and businesses are popular in the Philippines as well. The beautiful people such as actors and other celebrities endorse these skin-whitening procedures. Children are told to stay away from the sun so they do not get too dark. Many Filipinos also regard anything imported to be more special than anything local or made in the Philippines. In the United States, many Filipino Americans make fun of fresh-off-the-boats (FOBs) or those who speak English with Filipino accents. Many Filipino Americans try to dilute their Filipino-ness by saying that they are mixed with some other races. Also, many Filipino Americans regard Filipinos in the Philippines, and pretty much everything about the Philippines, to be of lower class and those of the third world. The historical and contemporary reasons for why Filipino -/ Americans display these attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors - often referred to as colonial mentality - are explored in Brown Skin, White Minds. This book is a peer-reviewed publication that integrates knowledge from multiple scholarly and scientific disciplines to identify the past and current catalysts for such self-denigrating attitudes and behaviors. It takes the reader from indigenous Tao culture, Spanish and American colonialism, colonial mentality or internalized oppression along with its implications on Kapwa, identity, and mental health, to decolonization in the clinical, community, and research settings. This book is intended for the entire community - teachers, researchers, students, and service providers interested in or who are working with Filipinos and Filipino Americans, or those who are interested in the psychological consequences of colonialism and oppression.

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