1st Edition

From Cultural Deprivation to Cultural Security Tackling Socio-Cultural Deprivation with Children and Young People

By Dale Allender, Arya Allender-West Copyright 2024
218 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This important book considers how youth of color and other marginalized youth experience socio-cultural deprivation from the repetition of traumatic socio-historic experiences as well as from the institutions they interact with such as schools, mental health organizations, and social services agencies. Focusing on the importance of connection to cultural heritage, the book shows how young... Read more

Introduction

Part I

1. What is Cultural Deprivation Pt 1

  • Intro
  • Critical Family History
  • Understanding Cultural Deprivation
  • Summary
  • Activities
  • Suggestions for further Reading

2. What is Cultural Deprivation Pt 2

  • Intro
  • Critical Family History
  • Understanding Cultural Deprivation
  • Impact of Cultural Deprivation
  • Cultural Security
  • Summary
  • Activities
  • Suggestions for further Reading


3. Addressing Cultural Deprivation in Classrooms and Communities

  • Intro
  • Overview of Professional Practice Standards
  • Introduction to Culturally Sustaining Rituals
  • Summary
  • Suggestions for Further Reading


Part 2

4. Indigeneity

  • Intro
  • Critical Family History
  • Learning about Indigeneity
  • Summary
  • Activities
  • Suggestions for further Reading

5. Ancestry

  • Intro
  • Critical Family History
  • Understanding Ancestry in Education, Therapeutic and Spiritual
  • Summary
  • Activities
  • Suggestions for further Reading

6. Mind/Body

  • Intro
  • Critical Family History
  • Understanding Mindfulness
  • Mindfulness and BIPOC communities
  • Summary
  • Activities
  • Suggestions for further Reading

7. Relationship-building
Intro

  • Critical Family History: Black Male Healing
  • Developing Cultural Security through Relationships
    • Family Relationships
      • The Brackeens
      • NABSW MEPA Position Statement
    • Cultural Security through Affinity Groups
    • Embodying Cultural Security
  • Activities
  • Summary
  • Suggestions for further Reading

Biography

Dale Allender, PhD, is an associate professor at Sacramento State University in the Teaching Credentials and Doctorate in Educational Leadership departments. Dr Allender has worked to disrupt anti-Black racism and to promote cultural security since 1995 at schools, treatment centers, universities, and museums throughout the United States, in Dakar, Jerusalem, and Vancouver.

Arya Allender-West, MA, is a Ronald E. McNair fellow at CSUS conducting research identifying Black female college students’ successful navigation of microaggression to illuminate the unique obstacles the population faces and provide best practices in advising, as well as to advance goals of non-biased teaching and counselling.