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Black Power Economists can help create wealthy Black communities by teaching the Black community how to adopt and apply basic economic building blocks.Slavery has damaged its survivors in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean so much that it is impossible to quantify. In the United States, there emerged sets of enslaved individuals that Malcolm X referred to as "field niggers" and "house niggers." Some people think the work they were forced to do was what primarily distinguished field niggers from house niggers, but that is not necessarily the case. What most distinguished the two was their response to being enslaved, their frame of mind, their perception of themselves and their perception of their enslavers.Black Power Economists must take the lead role in making Black People aware of the arsenal of resources they have access to that can help Black People re-establish their identity as independent economic units and beacons of progress. One of these is sovereigntyThere is hardly anything more valuable than sovereignty. Sovereignty is the key to economic independence and wealthy Black communities. Someone should have been teaching Black youngsters about sovereignty more than a hundred years ago, but didn't. The white power system had too much to lose by teaching Black People that, so it didn't; but more than a hundred thousand Black teachers and professors failed to do so and steered Black People toward mediocrity and salaries instead of sovereignty and wealth. It's time for Black People to redirect its economic energy, and Black Power Economists must step to the fore and lead the way.

In this book, activist/therapist Vikki Reynolds describes the ways she works to bridge the worlds of social justice activism with community work and therapy. This collection includes papers that describe ways of resisting burnout with justice doing; ways of witnessing that honour the poetic resistance of survivors of torture and political violence; and ways of centring ethics in group supervision. Vikki Reynolds, PhD, RCC, is an activist/therapist who works to bridge the worlds of social justice activism with community work and therapy.

The history of Black People in the Caribbean, particularly the countries of Haiti and Cuba, are of extreme importance to Black People in the United States. Since Black People were enslaved and shipped to the Americas, the experiences of Black People in the Caribbean and the United States have so much in common that they should be studied as if they were a single historical process. That way, students will get a clear snapshot of two opposing forces at work. One of those forces is white power, the other is Black Power. White power came to North, Central and South America and utterly dominated the native populations, and could have ruled without any serious competition from non-white people. But then white power made the decision to transport Black People to the Americas for slave labor purposes. In so doing, white power placed within its midst a force that is as powerful as white power, that has as much social substance as white power, and a force that white power could not kill off using its usual methods of military, economic, political, psychological and cultural violence. When one studies the history of Black People in the Caribbean and the United States as parts of a single process, one also sees Black Power thwarting white power even when Black Power is relatively unorganized and without an anti-white power agenda. We see white power with all of the advantages, and we still see Black Power, though unorganized and disjointed, responding frenetically but effectively enough to confound white power and frustrate the white power game plan. AMERICA IN BLACK: Black People's Ongoing Transition From Africa to New Afrika, reviews some elements of this historical and sociological process.

This book introduces a range of hopeful methodologies to respond to individuals, groups and communities who are experiencing hardship. These approaches are deliberately easy to engage with and can be used with children, young people and adults. The methodologies described include: Collective narrative documents, Enabling contributions through exchanging messages and convening definitional ceremonies, The Tree of Life: responding to vulnerable children, The Team of Life: giving young people a sporting chance, Checklists of social and psychological resistance, Collective narrative timelines, Maps of history, and Songs of sustenance. To illustrate these approaches, stories are shared from Australia, Southern Africa, Israel, Ireland, USA, Palestine, Rwanda and elsewhere. This book also breaks new ground in considering how responding to trauma also involves responding to social issues. How can our work contribute not only to 'healing' but also to 'social movement'? As we work with the stories of people's lives can we contribute to the remaking of folk culture? And is it possible to move beyond the dichotomy of individualism/collectivism? Collective narrative practices are now being engaged with in many different parts of the world. This book invites the reader to engage with these approaches in their own ways.

Today it is commonplace to hear therapists speak of experiences of demoralisation, burden, fatigue and despair. This book proposes that this is significantly an outcome of how therapy is conceived of and practised, and draws out alternative conceptions and practices of therapy, supervision and training that provide a powerful antidote to despair. Readers will be provided with options for taking narrative practices unto their own lives - options that will reinvigorate and renew.

In this graceful, strong and thoughtful book, Barbara Wingard and Jane Lester relate stories of their lives and work as two Indigenous Australian women. These stories offer hopeful and practical ideas in relation to a wide range of issues facing Indigenous Australian families. As the new millennium dawns, Australians are endeavouring to come to terms with their past and create new possibilities for partnerships in the future. This book offers stories that will inspire and sustain.

This best-selling book is an easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and practices of narrative therapy. It uses accessible language, has a concise structure and includes a wide range of practical examples. What Is Narrative Practice? covers a broad spectrum of narrative practices including externalisation, re-membering, therapeutic letter writing, rituals, leagues, reflecting teams and much more. If you are a therapist, health worker or community worker who is interesting in applying narrative ideas in your own work context, this book was written with you in mind.

Can narrative practices be used to respond to injustice and social suffering?Can they spark and sustain social action?In response to these questions, this book offers stories from Australia, Uganda, Zimambwe, Turkey, Kurdistan, Myanmar, Spain, and West Papua. Along the way, David Denborough brings new thinking tools to the field of narrative practice by drawing on the writings of feminist economists, narrative media scholars, social movement theorists and others. This book introduces new concepts such as 'unexpected solidarities' and expands on existing concepts such as 'enabling people to speak through us not just to us'. It also traces histories - of collective narrative practice in general and the Tree of Life narrative approach in particular - to assist practitioners in diverse contexts to continue to invent, diversify and democratise the field of narrative practice. David Denborough is a community worker, writer, songwriter and teacher at Dulwich Centre. He also coordinates the Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work at the University of Melbourne.