This article highlights the invisible power those in racial and gendered privilege continue to hold in the contemporary United States and the harmful psychological effects of this power on both those it oppresses and, importantly, those who wield it. A lack of empathy and an inability for compassion arise in individuals holding sociopolitical and cultural power, and we highlight how this psychological condition is qualifiable as psychosis and question why it has not been discussed as such in the literature until now. We also, however, bring attention to the invisible psychological power that marginalized populations in the United States hold, invisible because it has been left largely unrecognized by mainstream cultural forces. By centering the ways American cultural minorities successfully navigate multiply oppressive structural systems, we conclude with a reflection on how intersectional feminism can offer a philosophical lens through which to mitigate the unhealthy developmental outcomes and effects of White heteronormative male power.

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权力的隐形：当代美国发展的文化生态学


本文强调了那些处于种族和性别特权中的人在当代美国继续拥有的无形权力，以及这种权力对它所压迫的人，更重要的是，对行使它的人的有害心理影响。缺乏同理心和缺乏同情心出现在拥有社会政治和文化权力的个体身上，我们强调这种心理状况如何被定性为精神病，并质疑为什么直到现在才在文献中这样讨论它。然而，我们也提请注意美国边缘化人群所拥有的无形心理力量，这种无形的力量是因为它在很大程度上没有得到主流文化力量的认可。通过集中美国文化少数群体成功驾驭多重压迫性结构系统的方式，我们最后反思了交叉女权主义如何提供一个哲学镜头，通过它来减轻白人异性恋男性权力的不健康发展结果和影响。