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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://alaskan.social/users/feelnotes/statuses/113760202517177531">kevin (feelnotes@alaskan.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 07:48:10 JST</a><a href="https://alaskan.social/@feelnotes" title="feelnotes@alaskan.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/151163-48-20241124191238.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="kevin" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">kevin</a><div><a href="https://mastodon.world/@StillIRise1963/113759273913559501" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/@StillIRise1963">@StillIRise1963</a> </p><p>As a psychologist who conducts research on White people, I’ll say that Du Bois is a good place to start.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4301235#notice-8411710">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-01-03T07:48:10+09:00" title="Friday, 03-Jan-2025 07:48:10 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/notice/8411710" rel="external" title="Sent from gnusocial.jp via ActivityPub">gnusocial.jp</a></span></span><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/notice/8411710">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3831081">Du Bois (1935) determined that racial capitalism
requires a "psychology of caste" (p. 695) in which White
workers align themselves politically and psychologi-
cally with the ruling class of White elites who exploit
them, not with the workers of color with whom they
share many material interests. This psychology of caste
is apparent in the aspirations of White workers who,
Du Bois noted, often yearn not for an end to the system
of economic exploitation but for a chance to "join the
class of exploiters ... to become capitalists" (pp. 17-
18). Crucially, as long as White workers think of them-
selves primarily as Whites and not workers, the laboring
classes lack the solidarity necessary to effectively</a></label><br><a href="https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/760/201/988/514/995/original/1573eba0c6591b47.jpeg" rel="external">https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/760/201/988/514/995/original/1573eba0c6591b47.jpeg</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3831082">organize and resist exploitation and expropriation. In
the United States, for example,
race ... drove such a wedge between the white
and black workers that there probably are not
today in the world two groups of workers with
practically identical interests who hate and fear
each other so deeply and persistently and who
are kept so far apart that neither sees anything of
common interest. (Du Bois, 1935, p. 700)
Du Bois (1935) observed that in exchange for their
racial loyalty to elites, and in compensation for their low
wages, White workers receive "a public and psychologi-
cal wage" (p. 700), which includes a variety of symbolic
and social advantages-privileges—that reinforce their
sense of racial superiority and discourage interracial
labor solidarity. In other words, Du Bois determined that
racial capitalism was made viable by White workers'
psychological investment in Whiteness.</a></label><br><a href="https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/760/202/285/579/459/original/3d6ef8ea4b9355c2.jpeg" rel="external">https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/760/202/285/579/459/original/3d6ef8ea4b9355c2.jpeg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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As a psychologist who conducts research on White people, I’ll say that Du Bois is a good place to start.
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1. Du Bois (1935) determined that racial capitalism requires a "psychology of caste" (p. 695) in which White workers align themselves politically and psychologi- cally with the ruling class of White elites who exploit them, not with the workers of color with whom they share many material interests. This psychology of caste is apparent in the aspirations of White workers who, Du Bois noted, often yearn not for an end to the system of economic exploitation but for a chance to "join the class of exploiters ... to become capitalists" (pp. 17- 18). Crucially, as long as White workers think of them- selves primarily as Whites and not workers, the laboring classes lack the solidarity necessary to effectively
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2. organize and resist exploitation and expropriation. In the United States, for example, race ... drove such a wedge between the white and black workers that there probably are not today in the world two groups of workers with practically identical interests who hate and fear each other so deeply and persistently and who are kept so far apart that neither sees anything of common interest. (Du Bois, 1935, p. 700) Du Bois (1935) observed that in exchange for their racial loyalty to elites, and in compensation for their low wages, White workers receive "a public and psychologi- cal wage" (p. 700), which includes a variety of symbolic and social advantages-privileges—that reinforce their sense of racial superiority and discourage interracial labor solidarity. In other words, Du Bois determined that racial capitalism was made viable by White workers' psychological investment in Whiteness.
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