REVIEWS

“This book is a must reading for anyone with even a casual interest in understanding how the subtle nuances of race, racism, and white superiority affect black identity development and contemporary race relationships, both among blacks and between blacks and whites as well. Dr. Watson provides a compelling and irrefutable argument that raises serious questions and doubts regarding the arrival of a post-racial era in the United States.  After reading this book, the reader will never see race and race relationships quite the same!”

Kenneth V. Hardy, Ph.D.
The Eikenberg Institute for Relationships
Author of Teens Who Hurt

This powerful book breaks the silence on the black shadow and the myth of black inferiority. It will transform the dialogue on race and slavery in this country. Dr. Watson gives clear guidelines that can help black women, men, couples, and families to successfully challenge these myths and to transmit clear messages to our children. Readers will find hope in the struggle, and healing for the psyche and the souls of African Americans.

Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Ph.D.
Author of Black Families in Therapy

Facing the Black Shadow tackles the poignant and sensitive topic of internalized racism and the impact of the legacy of slavery on the functioning of Black men and women today. The book’s exploration of the role of history in forming expectations that impact identity and hinder the achievement of potential are themes that resonate with all people regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, ability or sexual orientation. For these reasons alone, Facing the Black Shadow is a book that is destined to impact the lives of those who read it.

Rona Preli, Ph.D.
Chair, Marriage and Family Therapy, Fairfield University

Facing the Black Shadow is forthright and honest, and at the same time caring and empathic. It shines a revealing light on the experience of the African American in its all its humanity – its strength and its vulnerability with an insight that I would find hard to discover in any other writing. It comes from the understanding of a clinician and therapist, and the sensitivity of a writer who also speaks from the heart. It puts the Black experience in the context of history, and in the inner world of the human psyche. But this is not just a book that uncovers what is hidden; it is also a book about healing. The conceptual clarity and the poignant stories come with pointed challenges to face the pain, share the wounds and act to discover strength and potential. This is, of course, a book for the African American, but it is also a writing about life that has something of value for every reader – a chance to better understand your neighbor as well as yourself.

Harry Aponte, MSW, LCSW, LMFT
Author of Bread & Spirit

A magnificent contribution, this book lays out the paralyzing effect of  internalized racism as the monster that  people of color must come to grips with.  No effect is left unexposed while making it unquestionably clear that  facing this monster is primarily our responsibility and must become a priority.

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