Description: A book about the deadly consequences of white supremacy normalized in the helping professions in Canada. What might it look like to transform these professions with anti-racist education and a serious reckoning with colonial history?
Brief description:
Amanda Gebhard is a white settler scholar and assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina. She has more than fifteen years' experience in anti-racism education as a student, researcher, and instructor in education and social work faculties. Dr. Gebhard's interdisciplinary research investigates racism and educational exclusions, the school/prison nexus and anti-racist pedagogy and practice. She has published widely on racism and whiteness in education in the Canadian prairies.
Review Quotes: "White Benevolence is a powerful collection scrutinizing the myriad ways racism in Canada manifests, is sustained, and is perpetuated in our systems of power and in social, political and economic relations. This panoptic collection is a clarion call for Canadians to wake up and dispense, once and for all, with the delusion that Canada is racism free. This is a must-read for students, educators and the general public."--Raven Sinclair, professor, writer, filmmaker and editor of Wicihitowin: Aboriginal Social Work in Canada