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I Don’t See Color: Using Cultural Humility To Embrace Reality
Welcome and Background
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Workshop Objectives
➢ Examine the differences between cultural competency
and cultural humility and understand how cultural
humility may improve social work delivery.
➢ Identify reasons why many people report feeling some
anxiety and may resist openly talking about issues of
race and race equity.
➢ Understand the importance of developing a personal
and systemic race equity lens to foster more equitable
social work practice.3
Talking openly & transparently
about race, ethnicity & culture can
be challenging…and liberating.
Navigating the Road Safely• Extend respect & grace.
• Embrace the difference between comfort & safety.
• Remain open & engaged.
• Find your growing edge.
• Respect other’s confidences.
• Refrain from the use of racial slurs.
• Take care of yourself.
• Manage technology.
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Let’s Talk Inclusiveness
Open to everyone…
Not limited to certain people…
How do you define being inclusive?
What does it look like?
How can systems and organizations
effectively serve the needs of
diverse groups of people?
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A challenge in practice...
Cultural Sensitivity
Cultural Competence
Cultural Diversity
Multi-Cultural Competence
Cultural Safety
Cultural Humility8
Evolutions Since 1980’s
One traditional way…
Assisting staff to become
“culturally competent”.
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A Solution
“The ability of systems to provide care and
services to people with diverse values, beliefs,
behaviors, including tailoring delivery to meet
people’s social, cultural and linguistic needs.”
Betencourt et. al., 2003
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Definition of Cultural
Competency
Trainings have frequently been built on assumptions
that members of groups share specific
Cultural traits
Values
Beliefs
Attitudes
that strongly influence or determine complex
behavior. 11
The Problem Has Been…
Trainings and textbooks have had a
laundry list of the characteristics of the
different ethnicities and races of people,
which in essence, may serve to promote
stereotypes rather than diminish them.
There has been no room for the
uniqueness of individual people. 12
And the Result…
A More Helpful Approach…
Cultural Humility
Means we are open and willing to listen
and learn from one another and the
people we serve.
Means we are willing to put aside the
information we thought we knew about
about a person based on generalizations
about their culture.
A Change in Perspective –
Embracing Cultural Humility
Cultural humility is a practice requiring
genuine self-reflection and accountability.
Focuses attention on our own internal
beliefs and thought process rather than on
characteristics of others.
Genuine accountability for self and systems.14
Our Challenge to Embrace Cultural Humility:
Examine the ways we use appearance to shape the identity of others.
Our Goal in Adopting Cultural Humility :
Effectively address the needs of diverse groups of people.
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Cultural Humility…
One Builds Upon the Other....ACTIVITY: As a group, develop a definition of the word assigned to your group. Write your definition on the chart paper provided. Choose a spokesperson to share your definition with the larger group.
Stereotype
Prejudice
Discrimination
Racism
Power
Some Major Roadblocks
to Cultural Humility
Colorblindness
Colorism
How does
each
statement
apply to you?
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Invisible Knapsack Activity
“The useful part of white identity’s vagueness is that
whites don’t have to shoulder the burden of race in
America, which, at the least, is utterly exhausting.”
Nell Irvin Painter
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The 3 “A’s”
*Acknowledgement
*Awareness
*Action
David Gaider
So why is it so hard to
talk about race?
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Perspective…
Implicit vs. Explicit
Overt vs. Covert
ImplicitCovert
Covert
Implicit
Covert Implicit
Internalized Racial Oppression
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A multi-generational process which manifests as
empowerment of people who are white and
disempowerment of people of color through
messages we• Receive
• Believe
• Accept
• Internalize
about ourselves and where we fit in American
racial structure.
Internalized Racial Inferiority
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ManifestationsDistancing Protectionism Colorism
Defensiveness Assimilation Fear
Blame Hostility Shame
Disempowerment Exaggerated
visibility
Anger
Self-destruction Hypervigilance Denial
Ethnocentrism Self-doubt Hopelessness
Low Self-esteem Trapped Sense of nothing
left to lose
Internalized Racial Superiority
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ManifestationsSilence Entitlement/privilege Expectation of
comfort
Arrogance Perfectionism Competitiveness
Escapism Missionary mentality Cultural
appropriation
Fear Anger Guilt
Avoidance Intellectualism Individualism
Fear that the
community will be
lost
White as the standard Blame
Dichotomous thinking: right/wrong, either/or, good/bad
Practical tools for more
equitable practice…
Apply a Race Equity Lens
Focus on Systemic Outcomes27
Something to Think About...
This work is primarily personal
before it can ever become
professional...
Embrace Reality…
Race and Ethnicity are important
▶ We are 99% alike one another as human beings
▶ Race is important for its social and political significance – racism
▶ Race is linked to higher disease risks.
▶ Social context (racism, poverty) and not biology is most likely the basis.
Example: prematurity, low birth weight, infant mortality, hypertension amongst
African-Americans
A word of acknowledgementand
appreciation…
Thank you for your commitment!
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How to contact us:
Virginia Flores, LCSW Region 03 Equity Specialist817-321-8226
Sharibeth Niehaus, Region 01 Equity Specialist 806-783-6627
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Brown, B. (2012). Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead.
DiAngelo, R. (2015, June 30). Why it’s so hard to talk to White people about racism [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/good-men-project/why-its-so-hard-to-talk-to-white-people-about-racism_b_7183710.html
Elder, J. & Irons, B. (2006). Distancing behaviors. Retrieved from https://www.pcc.edu/resources/illumination/documents/distancing-behaviors-anti-racism-handout.pdf
Gallavan, N. (2005). Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. Retrieved from http://rmc.org/wpdev/allguide/pdfs/mac_gallavan_act1.pdf
Hackman, H. (2013, January 24). Understanding resistance to social justice trainings [Blog post.] Retrieved from http://hackmanconsultinggroup.org/blog/understanding-resistance-to-social-justice-trainings/
Leigh, D. (n.d.) 28 common racist attitudes and behaviors that indicate a detour or wrong turn into white guilt, denial or defensiveness. Retrieved from http://www.ywcamadison.org/atf/cf/%7B2487BD0F-90C7-49BC-858D-CC50637ECE23%7D/28ToolsChange.pdf
Metta, J. (2015, July13). I don’t discuss racism with White people. Retrieved from https://www.popularresistance.org/i-dont-discuss-racism-with-white-people/
Painter, N.E. (2015, June 20). What is whiteness? Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/sunday/what-is-whiteness.html
Smith, D. (2015, June 18). The 8 R’s of talking about race: How to have meaningful conversations [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://www.netimpact.org/blog/the-8-r%E2%80%99s-of-talking-about-race-how-to-have-meaningful-conversations
Tochluk, S. (2010). Witnessing whiteness: The need to talk about race and how to do it. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Education.
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References
The Changing Face of America. Retrieved from:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/changing-faces/funderburg-text
Cultural Humility: A Lifelong Practice. Retrieved from:
http://socialwork.sdsu.edu/insitu/diversity/cultural-humility-a-lifelong-practice/
Are You Practicing Cultural Humility? – The Key to Success in Cultural Competence.
Retrieved from: http://www.cahealthadvocates.org/news/disparities/2007/are-you.html
Reflections on Cultural Humility. Retrieved from:
http://www.apa.org/pi/families/resouces/newsletter/2013/08/cultural-humility.aspx
Transcultural Psychiatry. Retrieved from: http://tps.sagepub.com/content 49/2/149
Implicit Bias. Retrieved from http://plato.Stanford.edu/entries/implicit-bias/
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