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Inadvertently, racist ideals, beliefs, and practices in society are embedded within the curriculums of professions designed to serve marginalized populations. This perpetuation of societal inequity within helping professions such as counseling, human services, health professions, and social work is evidenced by existing health disparities and restricted access to effective service provision. Although the incorporation of antiracist content may be advancing within specific helping professions, limited attention has been devoted to deconstructing how racism and structural inequalities are perpetuated pedagogically through educators’ language, classroom climates, and white supremacists curriculums across helping professions. As a result, antiracist professional practices require a critical examination of how to dismantle White supremacy embedded within, and transmitted through, disciplinary ideology and practices. To address the need for antiracist, inclusive pedagogy that combats White supremacy, this section illustrates and emphasizes the importance of antiracist pedagogy across disciplines. Although each illustration is situated within a discipline specific context, they collectively unveil how antiracist practices can be utilized to inform interprofessional collaboration, dismantle White supremacy, and advance equitable systemic outcomes.
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Tarver, S.Z. (2022). Antiracist Pedagogy for Helping Professionals. In: Johnson, K.F., Sparkman-Key, N.M., Meca, A., Tarver, S.Z. (eds) Developing Anti-Racist Practices in the Helping Professions: Inclusive Theory, Pedagogy, and Application. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95451-2_7
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