Book Synopsis
Publish in 2021: PROJECT 274 confronts a question almost entirely absent from clinical, historical, and sociological discourse: What do descendants of slaveholders inherit behaviorally, psychically, and socially, and how do these legacies continue to structure contemporary life? Rejecting reductionist narratives about “trauma in the genes,” this book advances an integrative framework that links molecular plasticity with family narratives, institutional power, and the unprocessed residues of racialized violence across generations.
Bridging clinical practice with historical sociology, Philip Kiing exposes the subtler inheritances of dominance; those that do not present as shame or remorse but as scripts of authority, entitlement schemas, and control based attachment patterns that echo earlier systems of sanctioned violence. Clear-eyed and clinically grounded, PROJECT 274 shows that the past is not gone, it is enacted, rehearsed, and defended in the present. For the past has yet to past.