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Published on: February 16, 2011
An ethnopolitical approach to working with people of color
1Transcultural Mental Health Institute, 1301 20th Street, NW, Suite 711, Washington, DC 20036, USA. cultura@erols.com
Abstract:
North Americans have been expected to abdicate their ethnic backgrounds and blend into a single homogeneous identity. However, the United States President's Initiative on Race (1998) concluded that the greatest challenge facing North Americans is to accept and take pride in defining themselves as a multiracial democracy. With an ethnopolitical approach, the author studies effects of oppression, racism, and political repression on individuals, groups, and societies. She concludes that psychologists can help ameliorate racism in society by taking an antiracist stance, promoting a safe society where racial-social equity and justice prevail, and helping to formulate a collective identity that affords freedom to all members of society.
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