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

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Brenda G. Harris¹  Darron T. Smith² 

[1] Department of Teacher Education, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, United States;University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States;

关键词: race;    freedom;    masculinity;    symbolic;    Blackness;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1235185

 received in 2023-06-05, accepted in 2023-09-22,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

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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