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Building Bridges Across the Racial Divide
Building Bridges Across the Racial Divide offers a hopeful view of how well-constructed diversity initiatives can combat entrenched racial prejudice and segregation in American life. This book provides an extensive review of research on methods for reducing stereotypes and prejudice and describes multiple initiatives designed to reduce the negative effects of racial separation by bringing together children, teens, and adults from different racial groups to share a variety of positive experiences.
The concepts in Building Bridges Across the Racial Divide are presented in clear, jargon-free language. Each concept comes alive with detailed examples from a variety of successful programs. Combining specific principles with poignant illustrations, this book will appeal to a wide variety of readers: educators, parents, students, clergy, youth leaders, community organizers, business leaders, and anyone who feels drawn to the goal of "making things better." This book is an excellent text for courses on diversity, race relations, social psychology, sociology, education, parenting, and community development.
195 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 7, 2019
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October 30, 2024
Know that this is performative.
The author styles himself as a progressive reformer in this book, and uses his lived experience to educate about his advocacy. Unfortunately, he does not discuss the totality of his lived experience and how certain aspects puncture the authenticity he assumes.
Larry B. Feldman prides himself on being a champion for marginalized persons. He is particularly vocal in signaling his allyship with the LGBTQIA+ community. Yet missing from his rhetoric is ownership and accountability for the mistreatment and abuse of LGBT+ persons by his profession.
Dr. Feldman is a Psychiatrist, and practiced during a period when the manual for his field, the DSM, diagnosed all sexual orientations and gender identities other than heterosexual/cisgender as mental illnesses. He practiced within and profited from a system which dehumanized, institutionalized, and abused gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans people. He is complicit in these crimes against humanity and has never admitted, taken responsibility for, or even openly discussed this fact.
Feldman styles himself as an ethical authority on intersocial transaction. The full reality of his lived experience belies this authority. In the late 1980's, the author cheated on his then wife with his co-author, Sandy Feldman, who later became his second spouse. Dr. Feldman met Ms. Feldman as her mental health clinical supervisor. The terminology is deceptive -- this is a Doctor-Patient relationship, and Dr. Feldman committed a severe professional and ethical breach for which he should have lost his license.
If Larry Brian Feldman wishes to be taken seriously as an authority on virtuous human behavior, perhaps he should consider surrendering his medical license and making six-figure financial restitution to Lambda Legal or a comparable organization.
The author styles himself as a progressive reformer in this book, and uses his lived experience to educate about his advocacy. Unfortunately, he does not discuss the totality of his lived experience and how certain aspects puncture the authenticity he assumes.
Larry B. Feldman prides himself on being a champion for marginalized persons. He is particularly vocal in signaling his allyship with the LGBTQIA+ community. Yet missing from his rhetoric is ownership and accountability for the mistreatment and abuse of LGBT+ persons by his profession.
Dr. Feldman is a Psychiatrist, and practiced during a period when the manual for his field, the DSM, diagnosed all sexual orientations and gender identities other than heterosexual/cisgender as mental illnesses. He practiced within and profited from a system which dehumanized, institutionalized, and abused gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans people. He is complicit in these crimes against humanity and has never admitted, taken responsibility for, or even openly discussed this fact.
Feldman styles himself as an ethical authority on intersocial transaction. The full reality of his lived experience belies this authority. In the late 1980's, the author cheated on his then wife with his co-author, Sandy Feldman, who later became his second spouse. Dr. Feldman met Ms. Feldman as her mental health clinical supervisor. The terminology is deceptive -- this is a Doctor-Patient relationship, and Dr. Feldman committed a severe professional and ethical breach for which he should have lost his license.
If Larry Brian Feldman wishes to be taken seriously as an authority on virtuous human behavior, perhaps he should consider surrendering his medical license and making six-figure financial restitution to Lambda Legal or a comparable organization.
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