Norissa J. Williams’s scientific contributions

... We understand that white people cannot self-identify as allies because they do not have the capacity to appraise their own "ally behavior" (Owens, 2020). Rather, only the marginalized communities with whom aspiring white allies seek to partner can dictate what constitutes authentic allyship (see Goldie et al., 2023;Gorski & Erakat, 2019). Because we do not presume to be experts in the area of authentic allyship, we focus our discussion primarily on the nature of performative rather than authentic racial allyship and address the latter only insofar as it is necessary to distinguish it from the former. ...

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A Model of Performative Racial Ally Behavior: Implications for School Psychology