Comment on Cory, 2021: Unpacking the invisible knapsack, a necessary step toward an antiracist cultural neuropsychology

ABSTRSCT

Cagigas’ commentary on Cory, 2021 lays bare the ongoing propagation of neuropsychological racism that is stifling the scientific integrity and clinical utility of a discipline in danger of losing its relevance. As such, confronting neuropsychological racism and its structural roots requires acknowledgment of those who have systematically profited at the expense of future generations of neuropsychologists, who now bear the consequences of a false meritocracy and hegemonic universalism that has unwittingly rendered a White neuropsychology. An argument is made for why simply unpacking white privilege is but a single step toward a much needed antiracist cultural neuropsychology.

KEYWORDS:

• Cultural
• antiracist
• socially-responsible
• generalizability

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