Amos N. Wilson

Who was Amos N. Wilson?

Amos N. Wilson was an African-American author.

He was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1941. He held positions as a Social Caseworker, Psychological Counselor, Supervising Probation Officer, Training Administrator in the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice, and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York.

He wrote several books including:

The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child,

The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy,

Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children,

Black-on-Black Violence: The Psychodynamic of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination,

Understanding Black Male Adolescent Violence: Its Prevention and Remediation, and

Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century.