White Privilege: Unconscious Racism, Freud, and Neuroscience of Implicit Bias

IF 1.3 Q2 ETHNIC STUDIES Critical Philosophy of Race Pub Date : 2021-06-18 DOI:10.5325/critphilrace.9.2.0295
K. Golden
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Abstract:Through an appraisal of neuroscience viewpoints on nonconscious mind with respect to white racial bias, this article shows how Freud's philosophical approach to unconscious mentality assists insights into white privilege and complements the model neuroscience provides. The article addresses four areas: Freud's concept of displaced affect, a link between American white people's self-reported egalitarianism and suppressed prejudice, how studies linking automatic race bias with the amygdala correlate nonconscious race-bias with fear response, and how race bias develops from two brain bases involving conscious and nonconscious processes. This article concludes that white individuals will be better positioned to embrace a principle of social fairness if widespread racism, racial bias and their psychic denial by whites, are made clearer to people. Combining a Freud-informed and experimentally empirical approach can help.
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白人特权:无意识的种族主义、弗洛伊德和内隐偏见的神经科学
摘要:通过对白人种族偏见的非意识心理的神经科学观点的评价,本文展示了弗洛伊德对无意识心理的哲学方法如何帮助深入了解白人特权,并补充了神经科学提供的模型。这篇文章涉及四个领域:弗洛伊德的流离失所情绪概念,美国白人自我报告的平等主义与被压抑的偏见之间的联系,将自动种族偏见与杏仁核联系起来的研究如何将非意识种族偏见与恐惧反应联系起来,以及种族偏见如何从涉及意识和非意识过程的两个大脑基础发展而来。这篇文章的结论是,如果白人普遍存在的种族主义、种族偏见和他们在心理上的否认能让人们更清楚地了解,白人将更容易接受社会公平原则。将弗洛伊德知情和实验经验相结合可以有所帮助。
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Critical Philosophy of Race
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期刊介绍: The critical philosophy of race consists in the philosophical examination of issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world. Critical philosophy of race is a critical enterprise in three respects: it opposes racism in all its forms; it rejects the pseudosciences of old-fashioned biological racialism; and it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism summarily eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. Critical philosophy of race is a philosophical enterprise because of its engagement with traditional philosophical questions and in its readiness to engage critically some of the traditional answers.
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