White benevolence : racism and colonial violence in the helping professions /

When working with Indigenous Peoples, the helping professions, education, social work, health care and justice, reinforce the colonial lie that Indigenous Peoples need saving. Leading anti-racism scholars in this volume reveal the ways in which white settlers working in these institutions shape, def...

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Other Authors: Gebhard, Amanda (Editor), McLean, Sheelah (Editor), St. Denis, Verna (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Black Point, Nova Scotia : Fernwood Publishing, [2022].
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean and Verna St. Denis
  • Living My Family Through Colonialism / Verna St. Denis
  • Toxic Encounters: What's Whiteness Doing in a Nice Field Like Education? / Sheelah McLean
  • How Indigenous-Specific Racism is Coached into Health Systems / Barry Lavallee and Laurie Harding
  • "Within This Architecture of Oppression, We are a Vibrant Community": Indigenous Prairie Prisoner Organizing During COVID-19 / Nancy Van Styvendale
  • Tracing the Harmful Patterns of White Settler Womanhood / Willow Samara Allen
  • Policing Indigenous Students: The School/Prison Nexus on the Canadian Prairies / Amanda Gebhard
  • Stories We Tell: Indigenous Women and Girls' Narratives on Police Violence / Megan Scribe
  • Colten Boushie and the Deadly Articulations of Settler Colonialism: The Origins and Consequences of a Racist Discourse / Timothy J. Stanley
  • What Can "Settler of Colour" Teach Us? A Conversation of the Complexities of Decolonization in White Universities / Shaista Patel and Nisha Nath
  • Am I a Settler? Considering Dominance Through Racial Constructs and Land Relationships / S.J. Adrienna Joyce
  • Unmasking the Whiteness of Nursing / Sharissa Hantke
  • Whiteness of Medicine / Jaris Swidrovich
  • Circle of Rocks: Cannibal Culture, Kinship, and Indigenous Youth in the Saskatchewan Public School System / Jas M. Morgan
  • Permission to Escape / Heather Carter
  • White Entitlement in Antiracism and Anticolonialism / Jeff Halvorseen, ReÌ?gine King, Liza Lorenzetti, Adrian Wolfleg and Lemlem Haile
  • Interview with Dr. Alex Wilson: Queering the Mainstream / Alex Wilson and Sheelah McLean
  • Conclusion / Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean and Verna St. Denis