Social psychology and the politics of racism

Abstract

This chapter takes a comparatively progressive area of social science research, the social psychology of prejudice, and examines its political effects. In the Introduction to this section, we have argued that despite the progressive effects of radical psychology in the past, the theorizations that supported liberal social policies have lost their usefulness for a radical politics. We highlighted one feature of such theorizations to support our view, namely the premise of an individual-society dichotomy. Shared by all the various branches of psychology, this dualism and the concomitant individualism which is central to it allows even radical analyses to be pressed into the service of existing social relations, thereby reinforcing and perpetuating them.

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