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Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness: White Psychopathology, Collective Psychosis, and Trauma in America, written by Dante D. King, is brought to life through the first online course session of a ten-part docuseries course that expands and deepens the book’s central arguments. The series adds visual, relational, and dialogic dimensions to an already multi-layered examination of race, identity, and systemic injustice in the United States. Grounded in consciousness-raising, truth-telling, and collective healing, the project is intentionally transformative—designed not only to inform, but to disrupt, challenge, and catalyze action. At its core, the docuseries moves audiences from diagnosis to responsibility. It invites viewers to critically examine racial constructs, confront the psychological and institutional foundations of racism, and reckon with the ways privilege is normalized and protected. The work emphasizes that dismantling racism requires more than awareness—it requires sustained self-interrogation, structural accountability, and moral courage. In the opening episode, Dante King engages in a candid and rigorous conversation with Jaontra Henderson and Robert Williams on the social construction of Whiteness and Blackness, the mechanics of anti-Blackness, and the function of racism in American life. Together, they unpack how White racism and anti-Blackness operate systemically to advantage White people—producing patterns of moral disengagement, delusion, and normalized violence within American culture and institutions. King offers a clear and uncompromising definition of anti-Blackness, explaining how it is legally, culturally, and psychologically sanctioned to devalue Black identity while simultaneously increasing the social, political, and economic value of Whiteness. The episode establishes the intellectual and ethical foundation for the series: an unflinching examination of how racism is sustained—not by accident, but by design.
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