As an academic, Wilson taught at the City University of New York from 1981 to 1986 and at the College of New Rochelle from 1987 to 1995. Amos Wilson worked as a social caseworker, supervising probation officer, psychological counselor, and as a training administrator in the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice. Eventually, he earned degrees from Morehouse College and Fordham University. Wilson was born and spent his formative years in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Amos Wilson was a scholar/activist who heeded the call of Bolekaja, which means to come on down and fight. The Second National Conference on African/Black Psychology was held on the campus of Florida A & M University in Tallahassee, Florida on October 14-15, 2011 and was dedicated to the legacy of Amos Wilson and his influence and impact on the contemporary Africana world. This special edition of The Journal of Pan African Studies, a peer-reviewed journal, focuses on the conference proceedings from the Second National Conference on African/Black Psychology.
He has published articles in The Journal of African American Studies, The Griot, The Journal of Pan African Studies and Race, Class and Gender.
His research interests are Africana intellectual history and social/political thought, the intellectual history and diasporic connections of Africana social science, the social/psychological aspects of oppression in the African diaspora and the social/political dynamics of race and racism. Jamison teaches Africana Studies at Savannah State University. Presently, she is editing a textbook on the psychology of Black women, entitled Afrikan American Women: Living at the Crossroads of Race, Gender, Class, and Culture which will be published in January, 2013.ĭeReef F. She has developed measures focusing on the evaluation of engendered racial myths of Black women, The Engendered Racial Myths Scale (ERMS), and a measure that examines the quality of Black female relationships from an Africentric perspective, Totem Self Scale-II. Her research examines the effects of the intersectionality of race, gender, class, and culture on the health, mental health, and relationships of women of Afrikan ancestry and explores the use of cultural strategies, such as proverbs and rites of passage, as tools of socialization for Afrikan American youth. Huberta Jackson-Lowman is an Associate Professor and former chair of the Psychology Department at Florida A & M University.
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