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White Benevolence: Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions

White Benevolence: Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions

Gebhard, Amanda
McLean, Sheelah
Denis, Verna St

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 1773635220
ISBN13: 9781773635224
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Published: Jun 21 2022
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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