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"I Thought Pocahontas was a Movie": Perspectives on Race/Culture Binaries in Education and Service Professions (University of Regina Publications(UR))
James Mcninch
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Paperback. A significant contribution to the understanding of systemic racism in Canadian institutions, this collection of essays arising out of the unique Prairie context interrogates how professionals practicing in law, education, health, and other helping professions engage with issues of race and culture. Editor(s): McNinch, James; Schick, Carol. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: JF; JKSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
A significant contribution to the understanding of systemic racism in Canadian institutions, this collection of essays arising out of the unique Prairie context interrogates how professionals practicing in law, education, health, and other helping professions engage with issues of race and culture. This book examines the challenges and resistance found within professional groups working with Aboriginal and racial minority peoples. For teachers, social workers, healthcare providers, and professors, the greatest barriers to working across difference may be themselves and their assumptions about what the nature of the "problem" of difference is considered to be. The authors in this volume advocate, ... Read more
A significant contribution to the understanding of systemic racism in Canadian institutions, this collection of essays arising out of the unique Prairie context interrogates how professionals practicing in law, education, health, and other helping professions engage with issues of race and culture. This book examines the challenges and resistance found within professional groups working with Aboriginal and racial minority peoples. For teachers, social workers, healthcare providers, and professors, the greatest barriers to working across difference may be themselves and their assumptions about what the nature of the "problem" of difference is considered to be. The authors in this volume advocate, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
420
Place of Publication
Regina, Canada
ISBN
9780889772113
SKU
V9780889772113
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About James Mcninch
James McNinch is professor emeritus and former dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina. His research and publications have focused on teaching and learning in higher education, gender and sexual diversity, racism and white privilege, and the social construction of masculinity.
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