Cultural Oppression and the High-Risk Status of African Americans
Cultural Oppression and the High-Risk Status of African Americans
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文化压迫和非裔美国人的高风险地位
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2005
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Jerome H. Schiele
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Jerome H. Schiele
非裔美国人面临的一个长期而持久的挑战是文化压迫。尽管压迫对非裔美国人的影响受到了极大的关注，但人们的大部分注意力都集中在政治和经济压迫上，因为这是非裔美国人面临的社会问题的主要来源。人们较少强调将政治和经济压迫与文化压迫联系起来，以及将文化压迫视为解释非裔美国人高度社会脆弱性的基础。本文指出并考察了文化压迫如何产生了三个风险因素--(A)文化隔阂，(B)黑人集体主义的衰落，(C)精神上的异化--削弱了非裔美国人在美国进步和繁荣的能力。无论是单独还是共同，这些因素都将非洲裔美国人置于高风险之中，使他们在获得群体肯定和赋权方面继续遭遇障碍。
One of the persistent and perennial challenges faced by African Americans is that of cultural oppression. Although the effects of oppression on African Americans have received enormous attention, much of the focus has been on political and economic oppression as the primary sources of the social problems that African Americans confront. Less emphasis has been placed on connecting political and economic oppression to cultural oppression and on viewing cultural oppression as foundational in explaining the high societal vulnerability of African Americans. This article identifies and examines how cultural oppression has produced three risk factors—(a) cultural estrangement, (b) attenuation of Black collectivism, and (c) spiritual alien-ation—that diminish African Americans’ ability to advance and prosper in the United States. Separately and collectively, these factors place African Americans at high risk of experiencing continued obstacles toward group affirmation and empowerment.