Throughout each chapter, Sue refers to both anecdotal personal experience (his own and others’) and academic studies from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, education, and business, to provide evidence for his claims.

Sue also offers guidelines and strategies for participating in dialogues about race at home, at work, and in the classroom. find talking about race and racial (in)justice so anxiety-inducing - an anxiety that he demonstrates exists among people of all racial backgrounds, though for different reasons and sometimes in different manifestations. He analyzes the cultural and psychological reasons that people in the U.S. In Race Talk, Sue proposes that there is a “conspiracy of silence” around race in U.S. Race Talk is a follow-up to the impactful book Microaggressions in Everyday Life : Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation (2010), co-authored by Sue and Lisa Spanierman. His scholarly interests include multicultural counseling, the psychology of racism and antiracism, cultural competence, and mental health law, among others. Derald Wing Sue is the son of Chinese immigrants and currently Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Overview of Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silenceįor the second post in our Decolonizing Dialogue series (see here for an introduction to the series + the first post on Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire), I’m reading Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence : Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race (2015) by Derald Wing Sue.

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