Editor

Gebhard, Amanda

Mclean, Sheelah

St. Denis, Verna

Place of Publication

Halifax and Winnipeg

Publisher

Fernwood Publishing

Publication Date

2022

Physical Description

280pp

Subjects

Anti-Racism

Diversity

Abstract

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.

ISBN

978-1773635224

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF NR 100 GEB 2022

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