White Benevolence

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Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions

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White Benevolence explores the complexities and intricacies of systemic racism and how it is often perpetuated under the guise of beneficence. The book delves into philosophical and psychological perspectives to unpack the ways in which well-intentioned actions can still reinforce racial inequalities. With deep analysis, it challenges readers to rethink their understanding of racism and benevolence.
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You might enjoy this book if you are interested in exploring the intersection of race, identity, and power dynamics within societal structures. It offers a critical examination of well-intentioned actions and the complexities of privilege, making it appealing to those keen on contemporary discussions in philosophy and psychology.

White Benevolence

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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. This makes 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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White Benevolence is praised for its critical examination of how the 'helping professions' contribute to white racial power and colonialism, particularly within Canadian social institutions. The book is regarded as a vital resource for educators, social workers, and policymakers, shedding light on systemic racism and the violence embedded in supposedly benevolent actions. Reviewers see it as a wake-up call challenging the perception of Canada as free from racism and consider it essential reading for understanding the complexities of racial dynamics in societal structures.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781773635224

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2022

Country: Canada

Imprint: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Contributors:

Edited by Sheelah McLean
Edited by Verna St. Denis
Edited by Amanda Gebhard

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 15.0mm

Height: 23.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

Amanda Gebhard (Edited by)
Amanda Gebhard is a white settler scholar and assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina. She has more than fifteen years experience in anti-racism education as a student, researcher and instructor in Education and Social Work Faculties. Dr. Gebhard's interdisciplinary research investigates racism and educational exclusions, the school/prison nexus and anti-racist pedagogy and practice. She has published widely on racism and whiteness in education in the Canadian prairies.

Sheelah McLean (Edited by)
Sheelah McLean is a third-generation white settler who was born and raised on Treaty 6 Territory. Dr. McLean has worked in education for thirty years teaching high school, adult education and graduate and undergraduate courses in anti-racism at the University of Saskatchewan. She is an organizer with the Idle No More network. As a scholar and community organizer, her work has focused on research projects and actions that address inequality, particularly on how white dominance is created and maintained within a white settler society. She is a curriculum developer for San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training Program.

Verna St. Denis (Edited by)
Verna St. Denis is a professor of education and special advisor to the president on anti-racism/anti-oppression at the University of Saskatchewan, where she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in integrated anti-racist education for many years. She is both Cree and Metis and a member of the Beardy's and Okemasis First Nation. Dr. St. Denis is a widely sought-after speaker on the topic of racism in education. Her research and scholarship are in anti-racist and Indigenous education, and she has published extensively on these topics.