CYC 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Covenant House, Narrative Therapy, Harm Reduction
19 Sep 2016
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How does this related to child and services and sectors?/ Child and youth care: a field of contradictions. Purposes of advance liberation (child and youth) and social justice on one hand and on the other hand enforcing state imperatives for social order eg. child welfare, corrections, Anti-oppression has replaced anti-racism as a critical perspective because the former offers a way of avoiding discussions of racism while at the same time appearing progressive. Diversity is used to silence and dismiss complaints about racism. Cultural competency is used as a method to secure and protect whiteness (how can you ever master another"s culture?) (pon 2009) cultural competency operates a new racism . Culture is not stagnant always in the process of being/becoming. Central to the establishment of colonial relationship. Canada"s first prime minister, john a. macdonald made it clear in his speech in 1867 that canada was a white man country . For the most part, canadians deny racism.
