EPISODE · Apr 3, 2021 · 51 MIN
Is England a wire monkey that fails to meet the emotional needs of its Black children
from AboutFace RealTalk · host Clifford Faulder
Harry Frederick Harlow (October 31, 1905 – December 6, 1981) was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship to social and cognitive development. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harlows+wire+monkey+experiment Listen as a Panel including Dr Leanne Johnson, Mark Waddington and Lorraine McLeod discuss AboutFace CEO Cliff Faulder's theory that England represents the wire monkey found in Harlows experiments with rhesus monkeys to Black people in England. Join the panel as they reflect on the difficulties Black people may have in attaching to a country who rejects them and fails to respond to their cries for help. Find out what the panel think the consequences are of being made to feel unwelcome and rejected in light of the Sewell race report.
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Is England a wire monkey that fails to meet the emotional needs of its Black children
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