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How Racial Identity Theory Is Relevant to Liberation and Peace Psychology

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A Psychology of Liberation and Peace

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Racialized violenceis the cornerstone of perpetuating racism. As an ideology, racism shapes our socialization with the insistence that human beings are aligned along a hierarchy in which Black people and others defined as not White are cast as sub-human and of possessing less worth than White people. Whites and non-White racial elites use physicalviolence to propagate racism, and in its structural manifestations, racism savagely imposes a sense of normalcy in which people tend to sideskirt and downplay the pervasive array of verbal put-downs, and systemic exclusions and entitlements that are accorded on the basis of race.

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Thompson, C.E.F. (2019). How Racial Identity Theory Is Relevant to Liberation and Peace Psychology. In: A Psychology of Liberation and Peace. Pan-African Psychologies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13597-3_3

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