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Marginalization: The Pendulum Swings Both Ways
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To marginalize is the process of relegating or confining to a lower or outer limit or edge, as of social standing. Hence, marginalization is the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society): "the marginalization of the underclass,” "the marginalization of literature."...
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Posted by on Friday, April 5, 2013 - 10:00am

The Future of Existential Psychology: Fear the Boogie Man, Not the Negro
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1967, just months prior to his assassination, addressed the American Psychological Association (APA), encouraging social scientist to take a more humanistic approach to understanding the effects of racism and segregation on African Americans by leaving the laboratory for the hedges and by-ways of American society:...
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Posted by on Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 1:00am

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