"Good Niggers": The Struggle to Find Courage, Strength, and Confidence to Fight Internalized Racism and Internalized Dominance

In this article, the authors relate how they, as two Black, female graduate students and educators, discovered racial self-negation and internalized racial hatred within themselves. Through designing and facilitating a workshop exploring the word "nigger," they concluded that internalized oppression stymied their growth as people and scholars, and inhibited their ability to act as radical change agents. They posit that such psychological, social, and economic self-sabotage is implanted by and works toward the benefit of the White society that depends on systemically limiting, blocking, and undermining Black success, innovation, and power. (Contains 1 note.)