ABSTRACT

The cultural trauma experienced by African Americans due to the African Holocaust has been re-created over and over again through generational trauma. American history has been silent and most oftentimes distorted in terms of portraying the African American experience since before American slavery and since. It is only in late 20th-century and now, 21st-century cultural narratives that African American history can begin to have an influencing truth on how American history is told. This chapter seeks to find discussion points and avenues for seeking healing from centuries-long cultural trauma based on the activation and existence of a racial complex.