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Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multicultural Approach situates violence within a social, cultural, and historical context. Edited by distinguished scholars Barbara C. Wallace and Robert T. Carter, this unique volume explores historical factors, socialization influences, and the historical and contemporary dynamics between the oppressed and the oppressor. State-of-the-art research guides a diverse group of psychologists, educators, policy-makers, religious leaders, community members, victims, and perpetrators in finding viable solutions to violence.
A Multicultural Approach to Violence: Toward a Psychology of Oppression, Liberation, and Identity Development
A Multicultural Approach to Violence: Toward a Psychology of Oppression, Liberation, and Identity Development
Amulticultural approach to violence considers multiple cultural variables that operate in the origin, manifestation, and dynamics of violence on the level of the individual, family, organization, and society while appreciating both historical and sociocultural influences. Hence, these multiple cultural variables may be derived from the social context or from the personal characteristics and experiences of those either perpetrating or being victimized by violence.
This means we must consider the experiences of the oppressed and the oppressor when the form of “diversity or difference” at issue may take any one or more manifestations. This also allows for us to ...
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