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#Courageous conversations about race chapter 10 series#

Involve an unequal status relationship of power and privilege among participants.

Are often instigated by racial microaggressions.Arouse intense emotions such as dread and anxiety (for Whites) and anger and frustration (for people of color) that disrupt communication and behaviors.Are found to be offensive to participants.Reveal major differences in worldviews that are challenged publicly.Are potentially threatening conversations or interactions between members of different racial and ethnic groups.Our findings suggest that difficult dialogues on race:

Unless instigated in some manner, the majority of people in interracial settings would prefer to avoid such topical discussions or to minimize and dilute their importance and meaning. Race talk is generally filled with intense and powerful emotions, creates a threatening environment for participants, reveals major differences in worldviews or perspectives and often results in disastrous consequences such as a hardening of biased racial views. Race talk is a dialogue or conversation that involves topics of race, racism, “whiteness” and White privilege.

How educators could create conditions conducive to successful outcomesĮach of these areas has formed topics in my most recent book, Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race (2015).

The impact of race talk on participants.

Whether people of color and Whites perceive the rules differently from one another.

Ground rules or guidelines that explicitly and implicitly dictate how and when race is discussed.

In our studies, we specifically focused on: Although our research has been conducted in an educational and training context, I believe our findings are equally applicable to all racial dialogues, whether they occur in education, employment, health care, public forums, the media or among neighbors. The inability to honestly dialogue about race and racial issues can serve as a major hindrance to effective multicultural counseling. As we become an increasingly diverse society, it is impossible for counselors not to encounter clients who differ from them in terms of race, ethnicity and cultural background.

#Courageous conversations about race chapter 10 series#

Over a five-year period, my colleagues and I have conducted a series of studies to explore the psychology of racial dialogues or “race talk” in the training of counselors and other mental health professionals.