Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College. She is also in independent practice in Cambridge, MA. Her scholarship focuses on immigration, trauma, race, cultural competence, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She has served as the chair of the Multicultural Concerns Committee in American Psychological Association Division 39 (Psychoanalysis), and as a member of the APA Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs, the APA Presidential Task Force on Immigration, and the APA Task Force on Revising the Multicultural Guidelines. She is currently a Member-at-Large on the Board of Directors of APA Division 39, and a member of the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy, published by APA (American Psychological Association) Books in 2016.
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https://theculturetrip.com/asia/india/articles/the-dark-history-behind-sati-a-banned-funeral-custom-in-india/
The Sati or suttee[note 1] was a historical practice found chiefly among Hindus in the northern and pre-modern regions of South Asia, in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband funeral pyre
Dowry
the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage cultures in which marriage rarely occurs without dowry or bride-price
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dowry
Caste System
The rigid Hindu system of hereditary social distinctions based on castes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35650616
Colorism
Prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group.
