Actual and symbolic prisons, Black men, and the freedom-unfreedom paradox: interrogating the bad faith of racialized oppression in a post-accountable United States.

IF 2.6 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2023-10-09 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1235185

Darron T Smith, Brenda G Harris

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Abstract

Drawing on systemic racism theory, white racial framing and the notion of bad faith as the connecting, justifying thread between ideals of freedom and equality and actions realizing unfreedom and inequities, this essay explores the alchemy of race, masculinity, and racialized oppression and its consequences for Black men past and present in United States society. This essay's aim is to trace the historical ideologies and cultural practices, relations, and normative standards that have contributed to, and hence must be challenged to confront, the inequitable, race-based relations of power, and privilege at the root of institutionalized injustices. To do so, this essay interrogates the dissonance of bad faith as a corrective mode of truth telling to highlight and tap the equity potential of Black men's collective, historical rejections of the White mainstream's conflicting definitions and deceptive reasonings requisite for pushing toward racial justice, healing, and peace.

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真实的和象征性的监狱，黑人，自由与不自由的悖论:质疑后问责制美国种族化压迫的恶意。

本文借鉴系统性种族主义理论、白人种族框架和恶意概念，将其作为自由和平等理想与实现自由和不平等的行动之间的联系和正当线索，探讨了种族、男子气概和种族化压迫的炼金术及其对美国社会过去和现在黑人的影响。本文的目的是追溯历史意识形态和文化实践、关系和规范标准，这些都促成了制度化不公正的根源——不公平的、基于种族的权力和特权关系，因此必须面对这些关系。为此，本文质疑恶意的不和谐，将其作为一种纠正真相的模式，以强调和挖掘黑人集体的公平潜力，历史上对白人主流相互冲突的定义的拒绝，以及推动种族正义、治愈与和平所必需的欺骗性推理。

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Frontiers in Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

5.30

自引率

13.20%

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7396

审稿时长

14 weeks

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