White benevolence : racism and colonial violence in the helping professions / edited by Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean and Verna St. Denis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gebhard, Amanda, editor.

McLean, Sheelah, editor.

St. Denis, Verna, editor.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism.

Anti-racism.

Racism in education.

Racism in social services.

Racism in medicine.

Racism in criminal justice administration.

Social service and race relations.

Social work with minorities.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Black Point, Nova Scotia ; Winnipeg, Manitoba : Fernwood Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

"When working with Indigenous Peoples, the helping professions - education, social work, health care and justice - reinforce the colonial lie that Indigenous Peoples need saving. Leading anti-racism scholars in this volume 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. White settlers have a responsibility to understand the colonial history of their professions and their complicity in ongoing violence, be it violent policing, school push-out, 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."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Verna St. Denis

2. Living My Family Through Colonialism / Verna St. Denis

3. Toxic Encounters: What's Whiteness Doing in a Nice Field Like Education? / Sheelah McLean

4. How Indigenous-Specific Racism Is Coached into Health Systems / Laurie Harding

5. "Within This Architecture of Oppression, We Are a Vibrant Community": Indigenous Prairie Prisoner Organizing During COVID-19 / Nancy Van Styvendale

6. Tracing the Harmful Patterns of White Settler Womanhood / Willow Samara Allen

7. Policing Indigenous Students: The School/Prison Nexus on the Canadian Prairies / Amanda Gebhard

8. The Stories We Tell: Indigenous Women and Girls' Narratives on Police Violence / Megan Scribe

9. Colten Boushie and the Deadly Articulations of Settler Colonialism: The Origins and Consequences of a Racist Discourse / Timothy J. Stanley

10. What Can "Settler of Colour" Teach Us?: A Conversation of the Complexities of Decolonization in White Universities / Nisha Nath

11. Am I a Settler?: Considering Dominance Through Racial Constructs and Land Relationships / S.J. Adrienna Joyce

12. Unmasking the Whiteness of Nursing / Sharissa Hantke

13. The Whiteness of Medicine / Jaris Swidrovich

14. A Circle of Rocks: Cannibal Culture, Kinship and Indigenous Youth in the Saskatchewan Public School System / Jas M. Morgan

15. Permission to Escape / Heather Carter

16. White Entitlement in Antiracism and Anticolonialism / Lemlem Haile

17. An Interview with Dr. Alex Wilson: Queering the Mainstream / Sheelah McLean

18. Conclusion / Verna St. Denis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: White benevolence.

ISBN:

9781773635224

1773635220

OCLC:

1280413384

Publisher Number:

99991384644