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


本文强调了当代美国那些享有种族和性别特权的人继续拥有的无形权力，以及这种权力对它所压迫的人以及更重要的是那些行使它的人所产生的有害心理影响。掌握社会政治和文化权力的个人会缺乏同理心和缺乏同情心，我们强调这种心理状况如何被定义为精神病，并质疑为什么迄今为止文献中还没有对此进行讨论。然而，我们也提请人们注意美国边缘化人群所拥有的无形心理力量，之所以看不见，是因为它在很大程度上没有被主流文化力量所认识到。通过关注美国文化少数群体成功驾驭多重压迫性结构体系的方式，我们最后反思了交叉女权主义如何提供一个哲学视角，以减轻白人异性恋男性权力的不健康发展结果和影响。