Engaging Antiracist Psychological Science: From History and Theory to Practice
PSYC 330
Fall 2023
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Responding to calls for antiracist psychological science, this seminar explores what it means to design and conduct that science. What does it mean to conduct "antiracist" studies that "decenter whiteness"? The exploration of scientific practices is grounded in gaining a fuller understanding of psychology's history, epistemology, research practices, and influence on social policy. Upon surveying past practices that fostered and sustained racist beliefs, we examine race theories and explore key concepts including reflexivity, positionality, diversity, elite capture, race theory, indigenous psychologies, and social justice. These historical, philosophical, and theoretical analyses are engaged to locate research methods and professional practices that move toward realizing antiracist science. The course incorporates lab activities, 6 papers, and a final project that engages a key concept or practice of antiracist psychology. |
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Gen Ed Area Dept:
NSM PSYC |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: PSYC105 |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (HRAD-MN)(PSYC) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
, American Psychological Association. (2021). Historical chronology: Examining psychology¿s contributions to the belief in racial hierarchy and perpetuation of inequality for people of color in the U.S.
Bharat, B., Chenneville, T., Gabbidon, K., & Foust, C. (2021). Considerations for psychological research with and for people of color and oppressed intersecting identities in the United States. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 7(4), 363¿377. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000285
Buchanan, N. T., Perez, M., Prinstein, M.J. & Thurston, I.B. (2021). Upending racism in psychological science: Strategies to change how science is conducted, reported, reviewed, and disseminated. American Psychologist 76(7), 1097-1112.
Daston, L. & Galison, P. (2007). Epistemologies of the eye. In Objectivity (17-53). Cambridge, MA.:Zone.
Kimmerer, R. W. (2018). Mishkos Kenemagwen: The teachings of grass. In Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, scientific Knowledge, and the teaching of Plants (156-166). Milkweed Editions.
King, M. L. Jr. (1968). The role of the behavioral scientist in the civil rights movement. American Psychologist, 23,180-186. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0025715
Roberts, S.O., Bareket-Shavit, C., Dollins, F.A., Goldie, P.D. & Mortenson, E. (2020). Racial inequality in psychological research: Trends of the past and recommendations for the future. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(6), 1295-1309.
Salter, P. & Adams, G. (2013). Toward a critical race psychology. Social Psychology Compass, 7(11), 781-793. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12068
Teo, T. (2011). Empirical race psychology and the hermeneutics of epistemological violence. Human Studies, 43, 237-255. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-011-9179-8
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Examinations and Assignments:
, Six short papers, final project, and lab assignments. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
, Students must have taken PSYC105. Students who took PSYC293 Towards Antiracist Psychological Science cannot take this course. |
| Instructor(s): Morawski,Jill G. Times: ..T.R.. 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: JUDD113; |
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