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Preventing Prejudice
A Guide for Counselors, Educators, and Parents

Second Edition
July 2012 | 392 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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The Second Edition of Preventing Prejudice has been completely revised and expanded to provide the most up-to-date and extensive coverage of prejudice and racism currently available. The new edition of this book not only presents a comprehensive overview of prejudice and racism but also includes practical tools for combating prejudice development in children, adolescents and adults.

Key features:

- stresses the importance of criticalrRole models: the text emphasizes the critical role counselors, educators, and parents must play in the fight against prejudice and racism. Pragmatic in nature, the book includes strategies that can be used by parents, teachers, and counselors in working to reduce prejudice across the lifespan.

- encourages healthy identity development: the text reviews an extensive body of empirical research on the link between identity development, prejudice, and mental health. The book summarizes racial, biracial, multiracial, and gay and lesbian identity models. A major new theory highlights the link of multicultural personality development to prejudice-free attitudes and behavior as well as to quality of life.

- offers field-tested tools: provides concrete, easy to implement exercises on preventing prejudice and increasing multicultural awareness. In addition, the book includes a review of tests and instruments that measure prejudice and a list of films and books that serve as a resource guide for readers. The authors draw on theory and research in social, developmental, counselling and cross-cultural psychology as well as in sociology and education.

 
Foreword by James M. Jones
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
Part I. Prejudice and Racism: Prevalence and Consequences
 
1. Understanding Prejudice and Racism
The Problem of Hate

 
Purpose and Focus of This Book

 
Some Important Definitions

 
Understanding Prejudice

 
Understanding Racism

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
2. Some Historical Background on the Origins and Evolution of Racial Prejudice
Prehistoric Roots of Racial Prejudice

 
Origins of Modern Racial Prejudice

 
Evolution of Racial Prejudice

 
Implications for Prejudice Reduction

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
3. Causes and Consequences of Racial Prejudice
Racism and White Americans

 
Racism and the Black Experience

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
Part II. Racial, Biracial, Multiracial, and Lesbian and Gay Identity Development and the Multicultural Personality
 
4. Person of Color (Minority) Identity Development, Mental Health, and Prejudice
Erikson's and Marcia's Models of Identity Development

 
Hardiman's Stages of Social Identity Development

 
General Models of Minority Identity Development

 
Race- and Ethnicity-Specific Models of Minority Identity Development

 
Integration of Identity Models and Relationship to Mental Health and Prejudice

 
Summary of Research Correlates of Identity Stages

 
 
5. European American (White) Racial Identity Development, Mental Health, and Prejudice
Hardiman's White Identity Development Model

 
Helms' White Racial Identity Model

 
Ponterotto's White Racial Consciousness Development Model

 
Rowe, Bennett, and Atkinson's White Racial Consciousness Model

 
Integrative Models of White Racial Identity

 
Why Is White Racial Identity Development Important? What Does the Research Say?

 
 
6. Biracial, Multiracial, and Gay or Lesbian Identity Development
Biracial and Multiracial Identity Development

 
Models of Biracial and Multiracial Identity Development

 
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identity Development

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
7. Multicultural Personality Development
What Is the Multicultural Personality?

 
How Does the Multicultural Personality Relate to Broader Models of Personality?

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
Part III. Proactive Roles in Reducing Prejudice
 
8. Counselor Roles in Prejudice Reduction and Race Relations
Traditional Roles of the Counselor

 
Counselor Skills and Prejudice Prevention Work

 
Counselor Roles in Working With Prejudice

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
9. Teacher Roles in Prejudice Reduction
Teacher- and Student-Centered Strategies for Reducing Prejudice

 
Using Curricula and Instructional Techniques to Reduce Prejudice

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
10. Parent Roles in Prejudice Reduction
Children and Prejudice

 
Early Formation of Racial Attitudes and Preferences

 
How Do Parents, Peers, and Personality Influence Prejudice Levels in Children?

 
What Parents Can Do to Promote Tolerance in Their Children

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
Part IV. Practical Exercises for Multicultural Awareness and Prejudice Reduction
An Orientation to Practical Exercises for Multicultural Awareness and Prejudice Reduction

 
 
11. Race Relations in Elementary and Middle Schools
Exercise 1: The Label Game

 
Exercise 2: Patterns of Difference

 
Exercise 3: Symbols of Our Culture

 
Exercise 4: One Situation But Many Interpretations

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
12. Race Relations in High School
Exercise 5: Being Normal and Being Abnormal

 
Exercise 6: Stereotypes

 
Exercise 7: Personal Culture History

 
Exercise 8: Predicting the Decision of a Resource Person From the Community

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
13. Race Relations on the College Campus
Exercise 9: A Classroom Debate

 
Exercise 10: Analysis of a Newspaper Article Through Role Playing

 
Exercise 11: Designing a Multiethinic Simulation

 
Exercise 12: Lump Sum

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
14. Race Relations in the Community
Exercise 13: Critical Incidents

 
Exercise 14: The Intrapersonal Cultural Grid

 
Exercise 15: The Interpersonal Cultural Grid

 
Exercise 16: Outside "Experts"

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
Part V. Instruments and Resources for Prejudice Prevention Work
 
15. Assessments of Prejudice, Cultural Competence, Stressful Effects of Racism, Racial and Ethnic Identity, and the Multicultural Personality
Measures of Racism, Prejudice, and Homophobia

 
Measures of Multicultural Counseling Competence

 
Measures of Teachers' Multicultural Competence

 
Measures of the Stressful Effects of Racism

 
Measures of Racial and Ethnic Identity Development

 
Measures of the Multicultural Personality

 
Guidelines for Selecting Multicultural Instruments

 
 
16. A Race Awareness Resource Guide
National Organizations

 
Books

 
Films and Videos

 
Popular Movies

 
Working With Films and Books

 
Chapter Summary

 
 
Appendix I: The Quick Discrimination Index (QDI)
 
Appendix II: Multicultural Counseling Knowledge and Awareness Scale (MCKAS)
 
Appendix III: Teacher Multicultural Attitude Survey (TMAS)
 
Appendix IV: Index of Race-Related Stress–Brief Version (IRRS-B)
 
References
 
Author Index
 
Subject Index
 
About the Authors

This book was excellent, and I hope Ponterotto writes an updated version. I would gladly use it for this and other courses. However, due to the shifts in cross-racial dynamics following an Obama presidency, I need to use a more recent primary text.

Dr Jesse Tauriac
Social Sciences Division, Lasell College
September 15, 2013
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The various chapters were appropriate for our leadership students. The topics were an excellent avenue for critical thought and discourse.

Dr Brenda Marina
Ed Ldrshp Tech Hum Dvlpt Dept, Georgia Southern University
January 13, 2011
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Joseph G. Ponterotto

Joe Ponterotto is Professor and Coordinator of the Counseling Psychology Program at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education. Prior to his arrival at Fordham in 1987, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Active in APA and ACA, Joe is also the author of numerous journal articles and books and coeditor of Sage’s Handbook of Multicultural Counseling. More About Author

Shawn O. Utsey

Shawn O. Utsey, new to the author team on this edition, is the Chair of the department of African American Studies, director of the Institute for African American Mental Health Research and Training, an editor of the Journal of Black Psychology, and an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and is the Editor of the Journal of Black Psychology. More About Author

Paul B. Pedersen

Paul B. Pedersen is a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii and professor emeritus at Syracuse University. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and for six years at universities in Taiwan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Pedersen was also on the summer school faculty at Harvard University, 1984-988 and the University of Pittsburgh “semester at sea” voyage around the world, spring 1992. International experience includes numerous consulting experiences in Asia, Australia, Africa, South America and Europe, and a Senior Fulbright award teaching at National Taiwan... More About Author

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