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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Which is a HUGE critique that feminist scholars and race scholars have been making for years. 
Folks are correct in that "African American psychology" isn't inherently different than everyone else's. But what your class was about was probably more "social psychology" which delves into how our surroundings influence us cognitively, cultural expectations, and meanings. And how the cognitive, expectations, and meanings impacts our surroundings. |
Yes well some of us are new to the field
Yep, basically. And, in one of my more recent graduate classes, we discussed multicultural counseling relationships and determined every relationship will be multicultural because you're almost never going to sit down with someone who has the same values and beliefs and upbringing, etc. as you. I'm taking a whole class on it in the fall and am very interested.
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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
You make sense based on your interpretation of these posts. Not based on what the posts are really saying.
People are judged everyday from the face value of being white, black, handicapped, female, ugly, pretty, short, tall, skinny, fat......
If you want to get beyond the surface, you ask questions and interact with people. It happens to black applicants and black members, as well. Some of us are just more curious when it comes to nonblack applicants and members. But based on your logic, whites shouldn't get any type of questions or curiosity. They should be taken at face value as long as they have the surface qualifications, which is a privilege not even awarded to blacks in our organizations.
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I don't really think I'm saying that. I'm really saying that the applicants should be treated like individuals and that if a applicant is white, that person is not dismissed out of hand because of their skin color (or because of assumptions made about them due to their skin color). And it sounds to me like the vast majority of members do this. I was only responding to the few who do not. Yes, I acknowledge they're going to get more and different questions if they're non-black and I think they should. But I also think they should be able to prove their dedication. Someone against white membership will never be satisfied with a white applicant even if that person is more dedicated than the "average" black applicant.