Comment on Cory, 2021: “White privilege in clinical neuropsychology: an invisible ‘knapsack’ in need of unpacking,”

Hispanic neuropsychologists in the United States: What do we know about them and how can the field address their needs?

“…The field of neuropsychology has been slow in responding to this situation and we believe changes are overdue regarding transformations that reflect the changing demographics in U.S. society. Attention to these matters is not only a social justice priority but is urgent to avoid the risk of neuropsychology becoming an irrelevant discipline (Andoh, 2021;Cagigas, 2021;Postal, 2021).…”

“…Hispanics represent 18 percent of the population (Lin et al, 2018, p.19) and 4.5 percent of the neuropsychologists in the United States (Sweet et al, 2021). As a heterogeneous group of people living in a primarily white dominant society, they have historically been subjected to discriminatory prac-tices at cultural, institutional, and interpersonal levels (Buraschi & Aguilar-Idáñez, 2017;Byrd, 2021;Cagigas, 2021;Cory, 2021;Postal, 2021). This study's participants were not the exception.…”

“…Neuropsychology researchers and scholars have recently and urgently responded to the issues and implications spurred by these concerns, namely, an increasingly diverse population in the U.S., a country where the political environment and the neuropsychology profession are yet to be considered inclusive and culturally consonant with the shifting demographics. They have eloquently proposed transformative ways for neuropsychology to respond to the changing times by becoming more multicultural/multiracial/multilingual, antiracist, as well as culturally, socially and healthcare relevant (Byrd, 2021;Cory, 2021, Postal, 2021.…”

Centering social forces and cultural experiences in neuropsychological assessment.

“…Training in neuropsychology would benefit from specific courses designed to expose trainees to factors in the assessment of minoritized populations. Recent work (Byrd, 2021;Cory, 2021;Postal, 2020) provides recommendations for actions at the individual and institutional level that center racial, cultural, and linguistic diversity in our assessment methods and research paradigms and in neuropsychology education, training, and practice models. Furthermore, although increased representation of professionals from racially and ethnically underrepresented backgrounds does not necessarily guarantee an improvement in cultural neuropsychological practice, particularly because of the lack of appropriate cultural neuropsychology training, representation of people from minoritized and marginalized backgrounds in neuropsychology is a critical element of progress toward a more relevant scientific and clinical field.…”

Introductory editorial to the special issue on white privilege in neuropsychology and norms for spanish-speakers of the US-Mexico border region

“…While this is a sensitive topic to broach, it is imperative that we as a field engage in challenging dialogues to move our field forward and, importantly, to demonstrate to our students, junior colleagues, and those outside of our discipline that: (1) this is important and matters to us, and (2) it is possible to come together to tackle difficult topics and create actionable changes. With these goals in mind, we introduce the invited commentary from Cory (2021), along with three invited comments on his commentary (Byrd, 2021;Cagigas, 2021;Postal, 2021) to begin a constructive and forwardthinking conversation on this topic. In Cory's commentary (2021), he builds on McIntosh's seminal paper (1989) as he unpacks his personal white privilege knapsack and reflects on how it may contribute to the ongoing "crisis" of inertia in neuropsychology to serve diverse populations.…”