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Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology.
- Source :
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Perspectives on Psychological Science . May2024, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p591-601. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- In the spirit of America's Shakespeare, August Wilson (1997), I have written this article as a testimony to the conditions under which I, and too many others, engage in scholarly discourse. I hope to make clear from the beginning that although the ideas presented here are not entirely my own-as they have been inherited from the minority of scholars who dared and managed to bring the most necessary, unpalatable, and unsettling truths about our discipline to the broader scientific community-I do not write for anyone but myself and those scholars who have felt similarly marginalized, oppressed, and silenced. And I write as a race scholar, meaning simply that I believe that race-and racism-affects the sociopolitical conditions in which humans, and scholars, develop their thoughts, feelings, and actions. I believe that it is important for all scholars to have a basic understanding of these conditions, as well as the landmines and pitfalls that define them, as they shape how research is conducted, reviewed, and disseminated. I also believe that to evolve one's discipline into one that is truly robust and objective, it must first become diverse and self-aware. Any effort to suggest otherwise, no matter how scholarly it might present itself, is intellectually unsound. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17456916
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Perspectives on Psychological Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177473319
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916241240743