- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Brooks Cole; 1 edition (Jan 24 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0495004758
- ISBN-13: 978-0495004752
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.8 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #712,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"[This book's] structure and content address comprehensively what I perceive to be the core content and pedagogical issues related to teaching about race and racism. It provides future human service providers with an understanding of the broad issues as well as some of the subtleties that I think the topic requires."
"This book is long overdue! It has all of the elements that are crucial for all individuals and organizations of this US/American society of understanding about the legacy and ongoing effects of racism. It includes exercises on personal self-reflection which is a crucial skill for people to learn, enhance, or hone. It is an active partner for anyone invested in assuming the challenge of engaging in anti-racism training, practice, and advocacy."
"[This book presents] a comprehensive look at racism in all its complexity and its many components and dynamics within our society and the helping professions."
"[This] is an excellent book for social workers and other helping professions--[it] gives enough theory and includes practice applications."
"This book is long overdue! It has all of the elements that are crucial for all individuals and organizations of this US/American society of understanding about the legacy and ongoing effects of racism. It includes exercises on personal self-reflection which is a crucial skill for people to learn, enhance, or hone. It is an active partner for anyone invested in assuming the challenge of engaging in anti-racism training, practice, and advocacy."
"[This book presents] a comprehensive look at racism in all its complexity and its many components and dynamics within our society and the helping professions."
"[This] is an excellent book for social workers and other helping professions--[it] gives enough theory and includes practice applications."
Book Description
With this fascinating text, you will start to analyze the social and psychological dynamics of racism and the implications it will carry for you as helping professional. Authors Joshua Miller and Ann Marie Garran investigate the many facets of racism in the United States, examining how racism exists not only outside of us, but inside of us as well. Human service workers must confront and challenge racism in both these areas. Those in the helping professions are ethically obligated to work for a society of fairness and social justice and to provide culturally responsive services to all clients, ensuring equal access and quality. The authors demonstrate that it is insufficient to solely focus on social structures, services, institutional practices, or on changing other people. They show that we must also look within and explore our own biases and blind spots which influence how we view ourselves and those whom we are committed to helping.
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Great Resource!, Aug 10 2009
By Yaminette Linhart - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions (Paperback)
This book is an amazing resource to have for anybody interested in thinking about or talking about race and racism, especially as people who are in positions of power in the helping professions. The concepts of the book are easy to understand and challenge every bit of how we think and live in our racialized world.
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Very Readable and Informative, Jun 30 2009
By Sarah E. Ouellette - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions (Paperback)
I thought this text was very well written and actually quite readable which made for a good experience with what can be a very difficult and upsetting topic to study. The authors are also very sensitive to the possible feelings and reaction of the reader, something that I've never experienced in a Racism text before. I highly recommend this book.
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A powerful work by two interesting scholars, May 25 2008
By Joseph D. Policano "DVD DEVOTEE" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions (Paperback)
This important work deserves to be read outside of the sociology classes for whom it was obviously designed. Highly readable and well researched it is a book that is a major addition to the literature on race in the US
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