Human Services and the Afrocentric ParadigmDiscover how human services professionals can help to eliminate cultural oppression!Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm presents a new way of understanding human behavior, attacking social problems, and exploring social issues. This excellent guide shows that understanding the simultaneous forces of oppression and spiritual alienation in American society serves as a foundation for understanding the societal problems here. The first book to offer a comprehensive exposition of how the Afrocentric paradigm can be used by human service professionals and community advocates, Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm discusses why and how human service work is hampered by Eurocentric cultural values and will help you to offer fair and effective services to your clients. Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm provides you with a concrete discription of how the Afrocentric model can be applied in human services to help people of all races and ethnicities. You will expand and diversify your knowledge base in human services by understanding the cultural values, traditions, and experiences of people of African ancestry.Some of the issues and concepts in the Afrocentric paradigm that you will explore are:
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... the Afrocentric Paradigm The Trend Toward Privatization The Dominance of Postpositivist Epistemology in Academia 215 215 216 217 235 235 238 Continued Uneasiness with Spirituality The Ascendancy of Postmodernism Continued Cultural.
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Contents
Overview of the Book | 14 |
Criticisms of Afrocentric Worldview | 20 |
Afrocentricity Equality and Human Liberation | 29 |
The Evolution of Black Social Work | 37 |
Black Social Welfare in America | 43 |
Oppression and Spiritual Alienation | 57 |
Youth Violence and the Afrocentric Paradigm | 73 |
Substance Abuse and the Afrocentric Paradigm | 97 |