Cultural Psychology, Racism, and Social Justice [E-Book]

Chapter 1. How Can Scientific Psychology Contribute to Social and Psychological Emancipation? -- Chapter 2. Introduction: The Science-Emancipation Dialectic or Mobius Strip -- Part I. Macro Cultural Psychological Theory -- Chapter 3. The Scientific Theory of Macro Cultural Psychology -- Chapter 4. The Emancipatory Character of Macro Cultural Psychology and The Conservative Character of Alternative Approaches to Cultural Psychology -- Part II. The Macro Cultural Psychology of Racism/Racist Psychology -- Chapter 5. Racist Psychology and Racism As Macro-Cultural Phenomena -- Chapter 6. Racist psychology, Slavery and Capitalism -- Part III. Social Justice Movements Against Racism: Intellectual and Political Conumdrums -- Chapter 7. Fetishizing Racism, Racist Psychology, Race, Inequality, Equality, and Democracy -- Chapter 8. Political Errors in Racial Social Justice Movements.

This book utilizes cultural psychology as a cultural theory and psychological theory capable of explaining and improving social issues. In particular Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychology, and Ratner's macro-cultural psychology are invoked to explain racism and mitigate it. This explanation of, and solution to, racism are utilized as a framework for analyzing and refining contemporary movements for racial justice. Among the topics discussed: Macro cultural psychology and Vygotsky's Marxist cultural-historical psychology Differentiating psychological racism from economic racism Historical examples of racism during American slavery which reveal their cultural and psychological features Cultural-psychological analysis and refinement of Black Lives Matter, racial capitalism, intersectionism, and Ta-Nehishi Coates' work Cultural Psychology, Racism, and Social Justice will be of interestto the fields of social policy, social transformation, psychological theory, cultural theory, and history.