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  Racial memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Jungian psychology, racial memory is a hypothetical type of memory which is not gained through experience or conditioning, but is inherited genetically, as part of a "collective unconscious" of the human species.
Racial memory does not define a memory insofar as a specific recollection of an event; instead it references an inherent genetic recollection of the experiences of the ancestral line of any given individual, and how this influences his or her behavior.
Racial memory would suggest that perhaps this individual's genetic ancestors met a dastardly fate due to a fall; ergo, this "racial memory" of the danger of heights causes the individual to fear them.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Racial_memory   (717 words)

  
 Memory bank
The first is the historical memory, based on events and happenings leaving their impact on societies by shaping cultures and civilisations which, in their essence, are codes of conduct determining the contours, complexion and content of interpersonal and inter- and intra-societal relationships.
Racial memory takes over when the lores and mores of societies are sufficiently broadened and deepened, and they get compartmentalised based on strongly held beliefs, faiths and convictions taking the form of religions or cults.
Social memory derives from the treatment meted out, or undergone, by different segments of the same society at the hands of one another and it can be both a cementing and divisive factor.
www.blonnet.com /2001/11/12/stories/041244of.htm   (527 words)

  
 Early American Manual Therapy
By means of the activities of the intermediate areas, the memories, the dissociated ideas, and the abstractions resulting from the dissociations of the elements of past experiences are combined into the higher conclusions, the abstract judgments, the classification of the fats and the interpretation of things as perceived in the light of many relationships.
The activities of the overflow areas constantly bring memories of the past events of his own life to be associated with present sensory impulses; the overflow areas also interpret the things perceived by present experiences.
It is enough to say that the facts seem to indicate either the possibility of acquired racial characteristics, or that the forces of variations, survivals, deaths and choice act in practically the same manner in the perpetuation of certain characteristics of cerebral development.
www.meridianinstitute.com /eamt/files/burns3/bur3ch07.html   (7136 words)

  
 Wisconsin Medical Society - Savant Articles, Genetic Memory: Factory Installed Software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He lists the second type of memory as that associated with "conditioned reflexes" and a third type as "experiential." Those two latter types would be consistent with the terminology commonly applied to "habit or procedural" memory and "cognitive or semantic" memory.
Whether called ancestral, genetic, or racial memory, or intuitions or congenital gifts, the concept of a genetic transmission of sophisticated knowledge, well beyond 'instincts,' is necessary to explain how prodigious savants particularly can know things they never learned.
But the concept of this third kind of memory, genetically transmitted and endowed, is one triggered by observing access to vast lexicons of skill and information in persons with savant syndrome who have severe learning disabilities, let alone some of whom have not even been exposed to such learning opportunities.
www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org /savant/genetic_memory.cfm   (1038 words)

  
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RACIAL MEMORY Individuals have access to the memories of the whole race, or at least a significant branch, sort of like an organic library.
Another ramification of racial memory is that any skill known by a member will be known at every previous tech level that the race has experienced; usually this goes right back to zero.
If the memory bank is destroyed, the hive loses its racial memory, or at least the ability to update that memory (In that case, reduce value by 10%, as for inherited memory.
www.identicalsoftware.com /rpg/gurps/hiveminds.txt   (5482 words)

  
 Rasta and Resistance - Introduction
The racial consciousness which was stamped yesterday in the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and which is today encrusted in the locks and beards of the Rastafari, stands as a potent force in the struggle for justice.
The limitations of the all-class racial appeal of Garveyism were to emerge in the Rastafari movement, and nowhere clearer than when in 1980 a 'white' Rasta formation joined the white ruling class of Jamaica in quoting the anticommunist statements of Garvey during the 1980 electoral struggle.
The problems of the racial divisions of the society are elaborated within the context of the capitalist depression of the thirties, which led to the massive revolt of 1938.
mojo.calyx.net /~olsen/RASTAFARI/CAMPBELL/introduction.html   (4156 words)

  
 Campus Compact Reader - Fall 2004
Simpson advances intentional racial memory as one strategy for white women/scholars to employ as a kind of self-examination.
Memory, she reminds us, helps to construct meaning and builds frameworks for interpretation and action.
She misses an opportunity to examine what rethinking the European past could mean for those wanting to become connected to seeing, feeling, thinking, reading and hearing beyond their own levels of comfort, familial socialization, and educational exposure.
www.compact.org /reader/fall04/review2.html   (1340 words)

  
 Pride and Prejudice -- What It Means To Be Proud of a Person, Group, Nation, or Race; Racial Profiling, Racial ...
The result was ethnic Hawaiian prejudice and racial hate-crimes against the haoles, to the extent that the head of the Polynesian Voyaging Society (a haole) resigned, along with the master Micronesian navigator who had trained a Hawaiian navigator.
The second voyage was racially exclusionary, with none of the original leaders or crew being asked for advice or participation; the canoe capsized and a life was lost.
Polynesian voyaging is an example of irrational racial pride when individuals who have not participated in the organization or its voyages claim praise merely for being members of the racial group.
www.angelfire.com /hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/prideandprejudice.html   (4483 words)

  
 perform-4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Secondly, new memories are acquired in the form of conditioned reflexes.
Then there is, in man at least, the third important form of memory, experiential memory, and the possibility of recalling the stream of consciousness with varying degrees of completeness.
In this form of memory and in speech, the convolutions, which have appeared in the temporal lobe of man as a late evolutionary addition, are employed as speech-cortex and interpretive-cortex."
www.kala.org /yuzo.secret/memorymecha.html   (249 words)

  
 .T H E . W A N D E R E R S. ++ Crew : Sabrielle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Michelle has a kind of innate (racial memory), 'Always knows where she's been and how to retrace her steps, even if they're not necessarily her own steps', with additional skills in utilizing starmaps, making starmaps, and navigating 'Blind' in space'.
She also has an innate (racial memory) knowledge of where the different jump gates are and where they will take a person.
She has a heightened sense of gravity with the ability to 'feel', using a sort of 'gravity-well', where large bodies are around her such as, being able too feel where things larger than a small freighter are around her for a couple of kilometers.
www34.brinkster.com /thewanderers/mickey.html   (309 words)

  
 NVSA 1999 Call for Papers
We encourage members to think creatively about themes of remembering and forgetting; of true and false memories; of genre, physiology, and the the politics of memory; and of failing memory and the fallacies of memory in the Victorian period.
Queen Victoria's prodigious memory was, in one sense, the primary archive, and she presents us with an example of what some might call excessive memory in the history of grieving, mourning Prince Albert.
As we study the archiving of memory, we might want to consider as themes and sources the history of information storage and retrieval by libraries, businesses, and government, as well as materialistic memories in the form of museums, monuments, memorials, memorabilia, and mortuaries.
www.stonehill.edu /nvsa/Nvsa99cp.html   (1163 words)

  
 On Racial Memory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For Lamarck and Neo-Lamarckians alike, instinct is to be understood as racial memory or habit, behavior acquired as a result of the trials and travails of experience and subsequently incorporated into the genome by some admittedly mysterious process.
Lamarck's explanation of instinct as racial memory, although it has forbears, actually represented a significant breakthrough inasmuch as it was commonly held at the time that animals' instincts were the product of special creation (design by God).
If, on the other hand, there is no such thing as racial memory, the case of the honeyguide—like a myriad of similar examples from the world of animals—must remain inexplicable and more than a little miraculous.
www.maverickscience.com /Evolution/On_Racial_Memory/on_racial_memory.html   (7186 words)

  
 EthnicStudies - UCSD
My work helps to emphasize that our own racial and spatial positions necessarily affect and influence how we are all disciplined by fictions, but in various ways and to different degrees while the interdisciplinary methodology of this work helps to complicate the boundaries between what we assume is fictional and what we think is true.
By first illuminating the racialized ideological material through which “The Queen of Our Hearts” (Diana) is “resurrected” as an ideal mother in U.S. popular journalism, this discussion sets the stage to investigate this material as it is intertextually, dialogically produced with other visual forms.
It examines the processes involved in the racialization of ethnic minorities in the United States, focusing on how public assistance recipients of color are stigmatized as inferior and problematic members of society.
www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu /html/grad_alum.html   (2314 words)

  
 Legacies of Lynching
Legacies of Lynching examines the evolution of lynching as a symbol of racial hatred and a metaphor for race relations in popular culture, art, literature, and political speech.
Markovitz credits the efforts of the antilynching movement with helping to ensure that lynching would be understood not as a method of punishment for fl rapists but as a terrorist practice that provided stark evidence of the brutality of Southern racism and as America’s most vivid symbol of racial oppression.
Markovitz's original and brilliant reinterpretations of the media spectacles surrounding Bernhard Goetz, Susan Smith, and Tawana Brawley provide subtle and compelling examples of the continuing stakes of political battles waged over imagery of race and gender nearly a century ago.
www.upress.umn.edu /Books/M/markovitz_legacies.html   (377 words)

  
 The Aberree, Volume 10, Issue 6 - page 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As nearly as I can tell from what data I have and from my own experience, the soul is immortal, but for most persons a memory block of pain and fear blocks perception beyond both conception and death.
Lifting it will open up perception and make available that which is called racial memory and that which is called Akashic records.
The racial memory involves a complete record of how and why the body evolved.
www.aberree.com /v10/n06p09.html   (919 words)

  
 COTW archive
With startling ease, he erased their memories of him, of his ever having been there.
While in someone's head, he also commonly uses Emotion Sense to get a feeling for the subject's inner-most self, their emotional masks, and the feelings that even they might not be aware of.
The fact that his telepathy (as far as he's concerned, anyway) is an outgrowth of the human Collective Consciousness makes his memory an extension of Mankind's memories, hence the inclusion of Eidetic Memory, Harmony with the Tao and a Racial Memory variant that includes all humans among Scion's "genetic ancestors".
www.angelwerks.com /GURPS/scion.htm   (5039 words)

  
 RS about Racial Evolution
We argue that spiritual science is an ideology seeking to free people from their racial group souls via a process of racial advancement toward the Universal Human, by progressing from lower racial forms to higher racial forms and eventually escaping racial and ethnic particularity itself.
Racial missions, good and evil races, and racial evolution are all necessary steps along the way to this concept of perfection.
Meanwhile, small select racial and ethnic groups continue their development upward in order to host those souls that are advancing spiritually and approaching the ideal human type.
uncletaz.com /at/marapr04/rsracevol.html   (15490 words)

  
 Novel: A Forum on Fiction: Not the story of a rape
Underlying the curiously illogical trope of rape are the "racial memory" of the 1857 Indian Mutiny and English feminism's use of colonialism and race as stand-ins for gender in its efforts at selfempowerment.
During successive periods of crisis for British authority, the racial memory of the Mutiny was strategically re-invoked in order to whip up public hysteria and support for brutal retaliation and preemptive suppression.
Discussing the role of invented "documentary" accounts and fictionalized retellings, she argues that the racial memory of 1857 and the later Amritsar massacre haunted, shaped, and in many ways provided the unspoken subtext for both A Passage to India and The Jewel in the Crown.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3643/is_199601/ai_n8740054   (821 words)

  
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The host does not lose any of their memories, and they are capable of accessing memories of the symbiont.
A modified version of Racial Memory is used for this.
Unlike "regular" Racial Memory, the GM does not need to roll versus the character's IQ to see if they can access these memories.
www.identicalsoftware.com /rpg/gurps/star_trek/st3d-races.txt   (2265 words)

  
 Cultural Amnesia
The phenomenon of racial amnesia occupied Freud’s mind in the last decades of his life, in fact it became his obsession.
Racial memory of some traumatic experiences dominates man and society to the extent that the human race in his diagnosis, lives in delusion.
But he did not know the true traumatic nature of the historical past, namely, the outburst of wantonness in nature itself, and so he insisted that each individual relives the catastrophes of the past, which he believed to be the murder of the father, the Oedipus complex.
www.varchive.org /lec/lethbridge/amnesia.htm   (4202 words)

  
 INTERRACIAL VOICE - Guest Editorial
In psychoanalytic terms, the notion of white supremacy is their superego, that moral censure, impervious to reality, which is passed from generation to generation as racial memory.
According to the racial scholarship of fls, Native Americans should be higher than fls in the social hierarchy of whites.
While their racial morality was an effective weapon against the racial violence of whites, it has in turn undermined constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression and freedom of conscience.
www.webcom.com /intvoice/liam7.html   (2299 words)

  
 Social Research: Sibling incest, madness, and the "Jews"
But he focuses on the problem of the debate about memory from Theodule Ribot, Pierre Janet, and on to Sigmund Freud as if it were all of the science of memory rather than only one of the rooms in the memory palace of nineteenth-century psychology.
For next to the theories of memory, which he provides for the reader in elegant summary, are the theories of organic memory (so ably explicated in Laura Otis's recent book on that topic [1994]).
For "memory" and "child abuse" have other relationships with one another within the history of psychology.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2267/is_n2_v65/ai_20964259   (1290 words)

  
 RS Part 22: Knowledge
He called it the “collective unconscious”, and felt that humans were genetically imprinted with thoughts, memories, and feelings from past generations; these “archetypes”, or “primordial images”, are symbolic representations of human history.
The concept of “racial memory” is part of what is termed Jungian psychology.
If such is the case, then Jung’s archetypes cannot be a “racial memory”, because once knowledge becomes a genetic property, as it passes from one generation to the next, it is no longer empirical.
www.reasoned.org /rs_txt22.htm   (2332 words)

  
 BLACK NATIONALISM - Third Way
The major media all uniformly uphold a racial integrationist perspective and the implication of their massive propaganda machinery is that all those opposed to vast social, racial and cultural mingling are bigots motivated by hatred.
Indeed, racial pride, a sense of a people's link to past and future has been forcefully and ably articulated over the past two centuries by scores of Black Leaders.
Although shying away from talk of repatriation or statehood their movement was one of exclusionist racial memory, pride, culture and self-defence.
afgen.com /third_way.html   (2684 words)

  
 Imagination, Imaging & Memory: Racial, Gender & Political Violence
Nyla Rosen ('03) is a graduating senior in Ethnic Studies, with a focus on racialization, incarceration and movements of resistance; her work emphasizes coalition building among social justice/independence movements in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and in the United States.
Born in New York in 1955, Susan Rosenberg became involved with anti-racist activism as a high school student in the early 1970s, organizing support for the Black liberation and Puerto Rican independence struggles; she was also involved with the student, anti-war, and women's movements.
Her focus is the prison industrial complex, specifically the incarceration of political prisoners in the United States and methods of community organizing for social justice.
www.brown.edu /Departments/African_American_Studies/Imaging_Imagination_Memory/bio.html   (1301 words)

  
 [No title]
Finney provides extensive analysis of that event with regard to the revival of racial memories as a basis for cultural authenticity (to be discussed in a later section of this book review).
One important point raised in this essay is the role of collective racial memory of a deep culture in guaranteeing authenticity for modern reconstructions of ancient artifacts and ceremonies following many generations of forgetting.
The uniquely Hawaiian theory of racial memory is a religious belief that the gods, the islands, and the ethnic Hawaiians are related genealogically, as members of a family.
www.angelfire.com /hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/polynesianvoyaging.html   (12386 words)

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