Free Your Mind: The Psychological Dismantling of Oppression

Oppression has a psychological cost for the oppressor and the oppressed. We each have a role to play in dismantling internal and external forces that keep oppression in place. What does the internal process of psycholoical liberation look like in today's society? Kira Hudson Banks, associate professor of psychology at St. Louis University, discusses appropriated racial oppression and racial identity development, as well as how to psychologically disentangle from the dynamics of opporession amid the dismantling of systematic oppression.