No More Building Resiliency: Confronting American Psychology’s White Supremacist Past to Reimagine Its Antiracist Future

This paper introduces a historically informed antiracist approach to psychological practice aimed at disrupting American psychology’s legacy of racism by first saying “No More” to the whiteness engulfing it. Seven historical themes reveal how eugenics, claims to objectivity, white hegemony, white normativity, white saviorism, and various rigged discourses have shaped organized psychology since its inception. By exposing myriad forms of racism and whiteness, they provide starting points for antiracist psychological practices that interrogate and dismantle both. By providing a common language, shared strategy, guiding ethos, and urgent tone, this approach offers a theoretical blueprint for advancing a professional collective movement. Its end goal is to detour psychological practices away from enduring legacies of oppression, reimagine psychological practice as an antiracist endeavor, and extricate the deep-seated structural whiteness rotting the profession to its core.