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Article: Voices of Color: First Person Narratives of Ethnic Minority Therapists.(Book review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Comparative Family Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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Rastogi, M. and Wieling, E (Eds.). VOICES OF COLOR: First Person Narratives of Ethnic Minority Therapists. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. 2005, 389 pp. $43.95 Softcover.
As a field, family therapy has been primarily shaped by and continues to privilege the voices of White, middle class, European Americans. Centering the collective life world of this single group has put family therapists at risk of imposing Euro-centric norms on all families and continuing to produce field knowledge from a narrowly defined, dominant perspective. While it is true that we have become increasingly aware of the influence of cultural forces and societal structures that ...