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  • The American Psychological Association (APA) committed to addressing racial inequity following its "Apology to People of Color" (2021).
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  • Discourse analysis can expose how academic fields may reproduce societal hierarchies.

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  • To analyze the discursive framework used in psychology's racism-related work.
  • To identify constraints within psychological discourse that may impede efforts toward racial equity.

Main Methods:

  • Critical conceptual analysis.
  • Multidisciplinary approach incorporating decolonial premises, Foucauldian discourse theory, and a sociohistorical approach to whiteness.

Main Results:

  • Psychological scholarship on racism is limited by narrow representations of whiteness within its discourse.
  • The discourse employed by psychology may inadvertently reinforce existing social hierarchies.

Conclusions:

  • Psychology needs to critically examine its professional discourse to advance racial equity.
  • Addressing the limitations in how whiteness is represented in psychological scholarship is crucial for dismantling racism.