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.
Re-visioning family therapy : race, culture, and gender in clinical practice
Part I: Re-Visioning Family Therapy. McGoldrick, Introduction. Laird, Theorizing Culture. Falicov, The Cultural Meaning of Family Triangles. Kliman, Social Class as a Relationship. Walsh, Beliefs, Spirituality, and Transcendance. Hines, Climbing Up the Rough Side of the Mountain. Part II: Challenging Racism in Ideology and Training. Green, Race and the Field of Family Therapy. Green, Training Programs. Hardy, Laszloffy, The Dynamics of a Pro-Racist Ideology. Akamatsu, The Talking Oppression Blues. Part III: What It Means to Be White. McIntosh, White Privilege. Miner, Body Ritual among the Nacirema. Dolan-Del Vecchio, Dismantling White Male Privilege within Family Therapy. Part IV: Cultural Legacies. Pinderhughes, Black Genealogy Revisited. Colon, The Discovery of My Multicultural Identity. McGoldrick, Belonging and Liberation. Mahboubi, Searcy, Racial Unity from the Perspective of Personal Family History. Folwarski, No Longer an Orphan in History. Part V: Therapy with Different Populations. Mahmoud, The Double Binds of Racism. Boyd-Franklin, Franklin, African American Couples in Therapy. Watson, African American Sibling Relationships. Crohn, Intercultural Couples. Kim, Marriages of Asian Women and American Military Men. Johnson, Keren, The Families of Lesbian Women and Gay Men. Garcia-Preto, Latinas in the United States. Part VI: Migration. Mock, Clinical Reflections on Refugee Families. Sluzki, Migration and the Disruption of the Social Network. Mirkin, The Impact of Multiple Contexts on Recent Immigrant Families. Part VII: New Approaches to Therapy Practice. Byrne, McCarthy, A Fifth Province Approach to Intracultural Issues in an Irish Context. Waldegrave, The Challenges of Culture to Psychology and Postmodern Thinking. Almeida, Woods, Messineo, Font, The Cultural Context Model.
The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics
This essay grows out of an experience of severe puzzlement. For several years now I have been watching with growing incomprehension as increasing numbers of feminist scholars have been trying to use or adapt the theory of Jacques Lacan for feminist purposes. I myself have felt a deep disaffinity with Lacan, a disaffinity as much intellectual as political. So while many of my fellow feminists have been using Lacanian ideas to theorize the discursive construction of subjectivity in film and literature, I have been relying on alternative models of language to develop a feminist social theory. Until now, I have avoided any explicit, metatheoretical discussion of these matters. I have explained neither to myself nor to my colleagues why it is that the footnotes in my recent papers contain some positive or quasi-positive references to Foucault, Bourdieu, Bakhtin, Habermas, and Gramsci, but no positive references to Lacan, Kristeva, Saussure, and Derrida.1 In this essay, I want to begin to provide such an explanation. I will