What is it about?
This study identifies how race functions as a psychosocial mechanism of dehumanization by destroying a sense of self as a human in the world. It also identifies necessary transformations in order to build a new, decolonial world, one in which the human (not the raced) can exist as lived experience. These transformations implicate the discipline of psychology as they are both psychological and social in nature.
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Why is it important?
This study examines the antagonism between race and the human in the modern world from a decolonial point of view. It is driven by the question—how can people, produced as Black, experience ourselves as the humans we are?
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Following the work of Black decolonial scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Sylvia Wynter, this research interrogates relationships between the colonial world, race, and psychological experience.
Deanne Bell
University of Birmingham
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This page is a summary of: Race versus the human., American Psychologist, November 2025, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/amp0001414.
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