White Benevolence

Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions

Édité par Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean & Verna St. Denis
Catégories: Groupes ethniques et études interculturelles, Recherche sur l’ethnicité, Groupes sociaux, Sciences sociales et culturelles, Sciences humaines et sociales, Travail social, Assistance sociale et services sociaux, Services sociaux et criminologie
Éditeur: Fernwood Publishing
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Paperback : 9781773635224, 280 pages, Mai 2022

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Table des matières

Chapter 1: Introduction by Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean and Verna St. Denis:
Chapter 2: Living Our Family Through Settler Colonialism by Verna St. Denis :
Chapter 3: Toxic Encounters: What’s Whiteness Doing in a Nice Field Like Education? by Sheelah McLean:
Chapter 4: How Indigenous-specific Racism is Coached into Health Systems by Barry Lavallee and Laurie Harding:
Chapter 5: “Within this architecture of oppression, we are a vibrant community”: Indigenous Prairie Prisoner Organizing during COVID-19 by Nancy Van Styvendale:
Chapter 6: Tracing the Harmful Patterns of White Settler Womanhood by Willow Samara Allen:
Chapter 7: Policing Indigenous Students: The School/Prison Nexus on the Canadian Prairies by Amanda Gebhard :
Chapter 8: The Stories We Tell: Indigenous Women and Girls’ Narratives on Police Violence by Megan Scribe:
Chapter 9: Colten Boushie and the Deadly Articulations of Settler Colonialism: The Origins and Consequences of a Racist Discourse by Timothy J. Stanley:
Chapter 10: What can “Settler of Colour” Teach Us? A Conversation of the Complexities of Decolonization in White Universities by Shaista Patel and Nisha Nath:
Chapter 11: Am I a settler? Considering Dominance through racial constructs and land relationships by S.J. Adrienna Joyce :
Chapter 12: Unmasking the Whiteness of Nursing by Sharissa Hantke:
Chapter 13: The Whiteness of Medicine by Jaris Swidrovich:
Chapter 14: A Circle of Rocks: Cannibal Culture, Kinship, and Indigenous Youth in the Saskatchewan Public School System by Jas M. Morgan:
Chapter 15: Permission to Escape by Heather Carter:
Chapter 16: White entitlement in antiracism and anticolonialism by Jeff Halvorsen, Regine King, Liza Lorenzetti, Adrian Wolfleg and Lemlem Haile :
Chapter 17: An Interview with Dr. Alex Wilson: Queering the Mainstream by Alex Wilson and Sheelah McLean:
Chapter 18: Conclusion by Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah Mclean and Verna St. Denis :

La description

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.

Reviews

“Interrogating the relation between the ‘helping professions’ and the production of white racial power, this much-needed work exposes the everyday violence that permeates Canada’s social institutions. This book is an essential and timely read for educators and activists, and for social workers and policy makers.”
- Dr. Sunera Thobani, professor, Department of Asian Studies, UBC

“White Benevolence makes a major contribution to understandings of historical and contemporary practices of violence in the helping professions. It interrogates the operationalization of claims to innocence, while being deeply implicated in systems of colonialism and white supremacy. It should be a foundational text for anyone working in and against formal systems of social working, including education, healthcare and social work.”
- AJ Withers, author of Fight To Win: Inside Poor People’s Organizing and Disability Politics and Theory

“White Benevolence is a powerful collection scrutinizing the myriad ways racism in Canada manifests, is sustained, and is perpetuated in our systems of power and in social, political and economic relations. This panoptic collection is a clarion call for Canadians to wake up and dispense, once and for all, with the delusion that Canada is racism free. This is a must-read for students, educators and the general public.”
- Raven Sinclair, professor, writer, filmmaker and editor of Wicihitowin: Aboriginal Social Work in Canada