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Psychology

THE ENDURING, INVISIBLE, AND UBIQUITOUS CENTRALITY OF WHITENESS

Kenneth V. Hardy

A comprehensive collection on the topic of whiteness from writers in the field of mental health and activism.

An up-front, close, and fresh examination of the impact of whiteness and how it contributes to our troubled race relationships, this book posits that whiteness is a pervasive ideology that is rarely overtly identified or examined, although it has profound effects on race relationships in therapy and beyond. Being intentional about naming, deconstructing, and dismantling whiteness is a precursor to responding effectively to the racial reckoning of our society and improving race relationships, addressing systemic bias, and moving toward the creation of a more racially just world. Contributors to the volume are from different backgrounds and trainings, and write on such topics as: the vicious cycle of white centrality; being Black in a world of whiteness; undoing internalized white supremacy; intersectionality and the contradictions of a white, Jewish identity; becoming an antiracist leader; and building an antiracist clinical practice. Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD, is a clinical and organizational consultant at the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New York City, where he also serves as director. He provides racially focused trauma informed training, executive coaching, and consultation throughout the country and abroad.

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Book Published 2022-05-17 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York (USA)

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Dr. Kenneth Hardy's book, The Centrality of Whiteness, is shocking, provocative, clear, inspiring, and personal. It is deeply touching as well as disturbing in a most blessed way, and it absolutely achieves its purpose: the demystification of whiteness. Hardy has brought together a strong, broad, clear and very astute group of authors to help challenge us on this topic, which is so essential to our very survival. This is the book we have been needing to help us work together to cultivate a society where multiple ideologies can coexist without domination, marginalization, annihilation, or indoctrination.

Seething and triggering, yet brilliantly analytical and refreshingly timely. This book should become a national treasure, because it makes visible the ubiquitous tyranny of whiteness, the effects of which occupy the minds and bodies of People of Color and to a more detrimental degree, Black People. Dr. Hardy and the other contributors speak a fiery truth to the centrality of whiteness in a way that has yet to be done. This book activates our duty as people of whiteness and People of Color to use simple, salient, and profound remedies to increase racial sensitivity and to create a path toward more constructive cross-racial conversations.

Whiteness is the socio-political default. To disrupt whiteness, it must be exposed. This collection, curated by visionary Dr. Ken Hardy, brilliantly and accessibly takes up this weighty task. This is a revelatory and essential new work, clear-eyed and instructive, yet also deeply personal and eloquent. Oh, that it may be required reading for anyone in human services!