A research article published last month in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association describes "whiteness" as a "malignant, parasitic-like condition" that makes the host person "voracious, insatiable, and perverse," warning that there is "not yet a permanent cure."
Research Article in Medical Journal Describes Whiteness as Malignant, Parasitic-Like Condition
On 6/9/21 at 2:07 PM EDT
A research article published last month in the
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association called whiteness a malignant, parasitic-like condition. That description, along with other language in the article, has caused public anger, and the backlash against the author was evident on social media.
Stock images of textbooks in a library. A science journal recently published a controversial article on whiteness.
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The article, titled
On Having Whiteness, was written by Dr. Donald Moss, a white man who is a faculty member of both the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.