Evan Auguste and Steven Kasparek join APS’s Ludmila Nunes to examine how psychology has contributed to anti-Blackness within psychological research, criminal justice, and mental health, and what scientists and practitioners can do to interrupt the criminalization of Blackness and redefine psychology’s relationship with justice.
The racist foundations of psychology and psychiatry contribute to the mass incarceration of Black people in the United States. The racist foundations of psychology and psychiatry contribute to the mass incarceration of Black people in the United States.