Williams Monnica T, Faber Sonya, Nepton Arghavan, Ching Terence H W
School of Psychology, Clinical Program, University of Ottawa.
Bioville GmbH.
Am Psychol. 2023 Jan;78(1):1-19. doi: 10.1037/amp0000940. Epub 2022 Feb 10.
In racialized societies, race divides people, prioritizes some groups over others, and directly impacts opportunities and outcomes in life. These missed opportunities and altered outcomes can be rectified only through the deliberate dismantling of explicit, implicit, and systemic patterns of injustice. Racial problems cannot be corrected merely by the good wishes of individuals-purposeful actions and interventions are required. To create equitable systems, civil courage is vital. Civil courage differs from other forms of courage, as it is directed at social change. People who demonstrate civil courage are aware of the negative consequences and social costs but choose to persist based on a moral imperative. After defining allyship and providing contemporary and historical examples of civil courage, this paper explains the difficulties and impediments inherent in implementing racial justice. To enable growth and change, we introduce ten practical exercises based on cognitive-behavioral approaches to help individuals increase their awareness and ability to demonstrate racial justice allyship in alignment with valued behaviors. We explain how these exercises can be utilized to change thinking patterns, why the exercises can be difficult, and how psychologists and others might make use of them to expand the capacity for civil courage in the service of racial justice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
在种族化社会中,种族将人们区分开来,使一些群体比其他群体更具优势,并直接影响生活中的机会和结果。只有通过有意识地消除明确、隐性和系统性的不公正模式,才能纠正这些错失的机会和改变的结果。种族问题不能仅仅通过个人的美好愿望来纠正——需要有目的的行动和干预。要建立公平的制度,公民勇气至关重要。公民勇气不同于其他形式的勇气,因为它旨在推动社会变革。表现出公民勇气的人意识到负面后果和社会成本,但基于道德义务选择坚持下去。在定义盟友关系并提供公民勇气的当代和历史例子之后,本文解释了实施种族正义所固有的困难和障碍。为了促进成长和变革,我们介绍了十种基于认知行为方法的实践练习,以帮助个人提高认识,并按照有价值的行为表现出种族正义盟友关系的能力。我们解释了这些练习如何被用来改变思维模式,为什么这些练习可能会很困难,以及心理学家和其他人如何利用它们来扩大为种族正义服务的公民勇气能力。(PsycInfo数据库记录(c)2023美国心理学会,保留所有权利)