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Resistance to Multiculturalism: Issues and Interventions

Name: Resistance to Multiculturalism: Issues and Interventions
Author: Jeffery Sco Mio
ISBN: 9780876309551

by Jeffery Sco Mio, Jeffery Scott Mio

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Overview

Heightened interest in multicultural issues in psychology and an understanding of culture as a critical aspect of human behavior has moved the topic of multiculturalism into the forefront of research and to required coursework in the helping professions. However, this is not without the backlash of resistance.
Resistance to Multiculturalism: Issues and Interventions examines the subtle forms of racism and resistance to the multicultural movement in psychology and society. The authors use their vast experience in the arena of multiculturalism, both from the perspective of teaching and administration, to detail accounts, experiences, and challenges of resistance. Therapy and research is interwoven throughout this text that begins by placing multiculturalism at the heart of the best traditions of scholarship as proposed by the highly regarded Ernest Boyer of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
In a conversational style and through chapters addressing what includes modern resistance, the classroom, stereotypes, resistance at the administrative level, and groups, this book offers techniques and interventions to overcoming resistance. Readers who teach multiculturalism, students, researchers, and those advocating for multiculturalism on on the broader community level will find Resistance to Multiculturalism an informative guide to combating the challenges of resistance.

Synopsis

Because of growing requirements that mental health and helping profession students take multicultural awareness classes, growing numbers of students are resistant to the material (as opposed to when these courses were purely voluntary). Mio (psychology, California State Polytechnic U.) and Awakuni (ethnic and women's studies, California State Polytechnic U.) present the techniques and interventions that they believe are useful in overcoming this resistance. Also addressed is the theoretical basis for the forms of resistance encountered, both social and psychological. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR