American psychology has admitted perpetuating racism and white superiority, so what are we going to do about it?   

In 2021, the American Psychological Association apologised for its role and that of American psychology for perpetuating racism, racial discrimination, and the idea that humans are arranged in a hierarchy with white people at the top. Does that not urge us to delink from American psychology? If we are not going to turn away from American psychological research, theories and therapeutic tools, what are going to do about its disciplinary arsenal?

Prof Kopano Ratele 

Kopano Ratele is professor of psychology at the University of Stellenbosch and head of the Stellenbosch Centre for Critical and Creative Thought. He served on the second Ministerial Committee on Transformation of South African Universities, and is former director of the South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa’s Masculinity and Health Research Unit, former president of the Psychological Society of South Africa and the former chairperson of Sonke Gender Justice.

His books include There Was This Goat: Investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile (2009), Liberating Masculinities (2016), The World Looks Like This From Here: Thoughts on African Psychology (2019) and Why Men Hurt Women and Other Reflections on Love, Violence and Masculinity (2022).