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Construct Validation Of The Interalized Racial Oppression Scale, Tamba-Kuii Masai Bailey
Construct Validation Of The Interalized Racial Oppression Scale, Tamba-Kuii Masai Bailey
Counseling and Psychological Services Dissertations
Racism has been identified as a profoundly traumatic and a psychologically damaging experience affecting Black people (Harrell, 2000; White & Parham, 1990; Williams & Williams-Morris, 2000). It has been theorized that one of the most devastating effects racial oppression (i.e. racism and discrimination) is the internalization of that oppression (Bailey, Chung, Williams, & Singh, 2006; Speight, 2007). Speight (2007) argued that an understanding of racism would be incomplete without considering how it is internalized. Internalized racial oppression is the process through which Black people consciously and unconsciously internalize and accept the dominant White culture’s oppressive actions and beliefs towards Black …