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Author Miller, Joshua (Joshua L.)

Title Racism in the United States : implications for the helping professions / Joshua Miller, Ann Marie Garran.

Imprint Belmont, CA : Thomson Brooks/Cole, ©2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.8 M615r 2008    ---  Available
Edition Student ed.
Description xxviii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-319) and index.
Contents Introduction: Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions -- Chapter 1. Background: Social Identity and Situating Ourselves -- Social Identity -- Situating Ourselves -- Power, Privilege, and Social Identity -- Comfort Zones, Learning Edges, Triggers, and Creating a Context for Learning -- Setting Guidelines -- Journal Writing -- Creating a Safe Environment -- Exercise 1.1. Social Identity -- Exercise 1.2. Exploring Triggers -- Exercise 1.3. Racial Identity Formation -- Chapter 2. What Is Racism? -- How Race and Racism Have Been Conceptualized -- Historical Underpinnings -- Western Concept of Race -- Theories about Racism -- Ethnicity Theories -- Race Relations Theories -- Theories of Prejudice -- Structural Theories of Racism -- Critical Race Theory -- Contours of Racism -- Levels of Racism -- Direct and Indirect Racism -- Intentional and Unintentional Racism -- Sites of Racism -- Frequency and Magnitude of Racism -- Spectrum of Racism -- Intrapersonal -- Interpersonal -- Intergroup -- Institutional -- Official and State -- Extreme, State Sanctioned -- Exercise 2.1. Applying the Spectrum of Racism -- Chapter 3. Brief History of Racism in the United States and Implications for the Helping Professions -- Racial Contract -- Native Americans -- African Americans -- Latinos/Hispanics -- Asian Americans -- Factors Common to Anti-Immigrant Racism -- White Ethnic Groups -- Push and Pull Factors -- Discrimination Against White Ethnic Groups -- Ethnicity and Race -- Liminality -- Racism and the Helping Professions in Historical Perspective -- Progressive Era -- New Deal -- Civil Rights Movement and the Great Society -- Exercise 3.1. Differential Group Experience -- Chapter 4. Web of Institutional Racism -- Nature of the Web of Racism -- Residential Racism: Neighborhoods and Housing -- Educational Racism: Public, Private, and Higher Education -- Employment Racism -- Racism and Wealth Accumulation and Upward Mobility -- Environmental and Health Racism -- Mental Health Racism -- Access -- Services Offered -- Who Provides Treatment -- Structure of Services -- Theoretical Biases -- Racism in Clinical Encounters -- Racism in the Criminal Justice System -- Political Racism -- Media Racism -- Implications of the Web of Racism for the Helping Professions -- Exercise 4.1. Web of Racism and Passports of Privilege -- Chapter 5. Why Is It so Difficult for People with Privilege to See Racism? -- Consciousness -- Invisible Knapsacks of Privilege -- Socialization into White Privilege -- Role of the Family -- Discourse of Denigration and the Creation of Other -- Renounced Targets -- Triangulation -- Stereotypes and What Can Be Done about Them -- Sources of Resistance -- Consequences of Unexamined Stereotypes -- Confronting Stereotypes -- Exercise 5.1. Personal Audit -- Exercise 5.2. Confronting Stereotypes -- Chapter 6. Social Identity Formation and Group Membership -- Identity -- Racial and Ethnic Identity Theory -- Multiracial/Biracial Identity Development -- Theoretical Assumptions -- Conceptual Expansions of Ethnic and Racial Identity Theory -- Multidimensional Social Identity Development -- Axes of Social Identity -- Dimensions -- Lifespan Context -- Environmental Context -- Resolutions/Stances -- Social Identity Development Phases -- Targeted Identity -- Agent Identity -- Identity and Intergroup Relations -- What Can Prevent or Alleviate Intergroup Conflict? -- Implications for the Helping Professions -- Exercise 6.1. Multidimensional Social Identity Exercise -- Chapter 7. Intersectionality, Racism and Other Forms of Social Oppression -- Common Aspects of Social Oppression -- Tilly's Model of Categorical Inequalities -- Bell's Features of Social Oppression -- Racism and Class Oppression -- Race and Class Visibility -- Race, Class, and Politics -- Interaction of Race and Class Today -- Racism and Sexism -- Social Consequences of Racism and Sexism -- Social Roles and Social Identity -- Racism and Heterosexism -- Heterosexism -- Interaction of Racism and Heterosexism -- Immigration and Racism -- Dynamics of Immigration -- Significant Legislation -- Immigration and Racism Today -- Exercise 7.1. Intersectionality -- Chapter 8. Racial Dialogue: Talking about Race and Racism -- Why Undertake Racial Dialogues? -- Why Is Racial Dialogue so Challenging? -- Conducting Successful Racial Dialogues -- Important Dimensions of Dialogue -- Models and Stages of Intergroup Dialogue -- Managing Effective Racial Dialogues -- Racial Reconciliation and Inter-Racial Justice -- Recognition -- Responsibility -- Reconstruction -- Reparation -- Exercise 8.1. Preparing for Dialogue -- Chapter 9. Responses to Racism in the Community -- Millville -- Snapshots of Millville Residents -- Racism in Millville -- Dynamics of Racism in Communities -- Structural/Institutional Racism -- Political Power -- Social Identity and Group Membership -- Phenomenology of Community Racism -- Social Cohesion and Community Integrity -- Responding to Racism in the Community -- Public Dialogue -- Re-Storying the Community -- Structural Interventions -- Generating Social Capital in the Quest for Community Integrity -- Anti-Racism Work in the Community -- Assessment and Prioritization -- Working with Existing Groups and Organizations -- Working in Coalitions -- Disruptive Strategies -- Participatory Efforts -- Self-Care -- Exercise 9.1. Mapping Your Community -- Chapter 10. Confronting Racism in Agencies and Organizations -- Types of Organizations -- How Racism Is Manifested in Social Service Organizations -- Policies -- Interpersonal Relationships -- Organizational Power -- Resources Devoted to Anti-Racism -- Developmental Models of Organizational Change -- Process of Becoming an Anti-Racism Organization -- Mission Statement -- Project Group -- Assessment and Prioritization -- Anti-Racism Audit -- Exercise 10.1. Anti-Racism Agency Assessment -- Chapter 11. Cross-Racial Clinical Work -- Social Identity -- Culture, Values, and Worldview -- Power -- Legacies of Racism Seen in Clinical Work -- Anger -- Rage -- Guilt -- Shame -- Stress and Trauma -- Grief and Mourning -- Theoretical Biases -- Barriers to Effective Cross-Racial Clinical Work -- Internalized Racism -- Inattention to Power and Privilege -- Defensive Racial Dynamics -- Guidelines for Effective Cross-Racial Clinical Work -- Working with Social Identity -- Focusing on Strengths -- Listening and Observing -- Working with Racial Transference and Counter-Transference -- Ability to Tolerate and Respond to Strong Affect -- Situating Clients in Their Historical and Social Context -- Mirroring and Empathy -- Bringing up Issues of Race and Racism -- Responding to Bias -- Issues for Clinicians Who Identify as White -- Issues for Clinicians Who Identify as People of Color or Multiracial -- Supervision and Consultation -- Structural and Environmental Issues -- Environment -- Access -- Staffing and Board Representation -- Exercise 11.1. Crossed Racial Identity between Worker and Client -- Exercise 11.2. Exploring Emotions -- Chapter 12. Teaching about Racism -- Regina -- Alicia -- Michael -- Course and Class Structure -- Classroom Climate -- Classroom Safety -- Classroom Norms -- Caucus Groups -- Instructor Self-Awareness -- Resistance -- Supporting Anti-Racism Teaching -- Understanding Students -- Teaching Strategies and Techniques -- Interviewing in Fairs -- Maintaining Balance -- Availability of Teachers -- Feeling Stuck -- Chapter 13. Dismantling Racism: Creating the Web of Resistance -- Creating the Web of Resistance -- Core Values -- Intrapersonal Realm: Introspection and Education -- Interpersonal Realm: Engaging in Dialogue/Working in Coalitions.
Subject Racism -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.
Human services -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Social service -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Human services -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst00963400
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
Social service -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst01123247
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Garran, Ann Marie.
ISBN 9780495004752 (pbk.)
0495004758 (pbk.)

 
    
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