Realizing the pedagogy of white privilege
The objective of this project is to explore the educational history on the Kainai Reserve in order to comprehend the role of patriarchy and colonialism as forms of racism in pedagogical practice. Three individuals integral to this research are Canon Middleton, Buffalo Child Long Lance and the author. The personal process of the learner outlines the transformation from the expectations that she would become an accepted member of the Kainai community to the realization that she will always be an outsider to the culture of the reserve because of her race.
Systems in Settings: The Therapist as Power Broker*
Family therapy discourse has given little recognition to either the specificities of the settings in which family therapy is employed or to the specificites of our clients. Clients are frequently constituted into the culturally subordinate position of ‘other’ to the therapist. This paper examines the ethical imperatives of the position therapists occupy in relation to their others.
Racism and Its Mirror Images
Taguieffs previous works, especially his study of the “New Right,” have led him to examine the foundations of politics in terms of the fundamental cleavage of the other into enemy/foe. Thus all politics aims either at disqualifying the other, if he is recognized as a simple adversary (echthros), or at annihilating him, if he is considered an absolute enemy (polemios). From this perspective, Taguieff has traced the radicalization of the French Right, which has insisted on French identity and has appropriated Left themes, particularly “the right to be different.” He focuses on the axiological opposition “we vs. foreigners” typical of nationalist imagery.