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White Benevolence

Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions

By: Amanda Gebhard,Sheelah McLean,Verna St. Denis

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White Benevolence

Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions

By: Amanda Gebhard,Sheelah McLean,Verna St. Denis

When working with Indigenous people, the helping professions —education, social work, health care and justice — reinforce the colonial lie that Indigenous people need saving. In White Benevolence, leading anti-racism scholars reveal the ways in which white settlers working in these institutions shape, defend and uphold institutional racism, even while professing to support Indigenous people. White supremacy shows up in the everyday behaviours, language and assumptions of white professionals who reproduce myths of Indigenous inferiority and deficit, making it clear that institutional racism encompasses not only high-level policies and laws but also the collective enactment by people within these institutions. In this uncompromising and essential collection, the authors argue that white settler social workers, educators, health-care practitioners and criminal justice workers have a responsibility to understand the colonial history of their professions and their complicity in ongoing violence, be it over-policing, school push-out, child apprehension or denial of health care. The answer isn’t cultural awareness training. What’s needed is radical anti-racism, solidarity and a relinquishing of the power of white supremacy.

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Fernwood Publishing

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1773635468

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Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy

Spirituality and Cultural Transformation Among the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi

By: Richard Katz,Megan Biesele,Verna St. Denis

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Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy

Spirituality and Cultural Transformation Among the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi

By: Richard Katz,Megan Biesele,Verna St. Denis

Description and analysis of indigenous methods of healing in the context of a new political economy, new health and education system. The book is written in a readable style, contains fascinating photographs as well as sensitive and reflective texts by the authors on their research work which makes it an exceptional book. Appendices include "Writing the Juu'hoan language: some political considerations" and "Concrete challenges for development workers" (BAB).

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Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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0892815574

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9780892815579

White Benevolence

Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions

By: Amanda Gebhard,Sheelah McLean,Verna St. Denis

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Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions

By: Amanda Gebhard,Sheelah McLean,Verna St. Denis

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1773635468

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