Sentences with phrase «understand white racism»

To understand white racism and black rage in America, I turned to Malcolm X and black power.

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To those who are open to exploring a radically different way of understanding racism in America, I recommend White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement.

«Project Understanding» was a two - year effort by teams of theological students, laymen, and clergymen to devise methods for reducing White racism in suburban congregations.4 The training of participants included plunges into the inner city and encounters with Black and Brown rage.

In answering, there are possibly two distinct groups to consider - those persons who consider racism and live in Europe and North America, but also those who live in regions where white - related racism may not be seen as «the big racial division», and who may have entirely different frameworks (which are less visible in Europe and North America) for their understandings.

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

DiAngelo advises that white allies seeking to improve their comprehension of racially fraught subjects attempt «to understand the racial realities of people of color through authentic interaction rather than through the media or unequal relationships» and to take «action to address our own racism, the racism of other whites, and the racism embedded in our institutions.»

So one interpretation of the author's response to assertion of «white privilege» and «systemic racism» is that he is ignorant of what is actually being said — and that it is presumptuous to for him to castigate as he does without spending time to actually understand what is being said.

Issues explored include microaggressions with white clients, understanding how internalized racism manifests in the therapeutic context, and the dynamics between people of color from different races in the therapeutic relationships.

On the second day, the panel of accomplished and wise Aboriginal women (led by senior federal advisor Kerrie Tim, with Eileen Cummings, June Oscar AO, and Karen Nangala Woodley) was also a standout because it reminded us how important it is that we acknowledge that our research is taking place in a context of a colonised white Australia, and that white research has long been used to entrench racism and sexism in Aboriginal communities, rather than to enhance understanding and bring about transformative social change.

«From an Aboriginal perspective, the experience of family violence must be understood in the historical context of white settlement and colonisation and their resulting (and continuing) impacts: cultural dispossession, breakdown of community kinship systems and Aboriginal law, systemic racism and vilification, social and economic exclusion, entrenched poverty, problematic substance use, inherited grief and trauma, and loss of traditional roles and status (Aboriginal Affairs Victoria 2008).»