Culture in Mind

Mental health, culture, and ethnicity

by Ruth C. White, Ph.D.

The Race Card

The scariest card in the deck

Published on November 20, 2012 by Ruth C. White, Ph.D. in Culture in Mind

Everyone in the USA is born with a race card.

As infants turn into children and children into teenagers, some people acquire other racial accroutrements like a race filter through which all their experiences are seen or various sizes of race chips that sit on shoulders burdened by a life of slights, insults, discrimination and outright hostility.

via The Race Card | Psychology Today.