Counseling Black Youth: A Quest for Legitimacy

Tucker, Robert N.; Gunnings, Thomas S.

doi:10.1002/j.2164-4950.1974.tb00184.x

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“…Milliard, 1974;Sedlacek & Brooks, 1973b) be increased; (c) models be used that focus on society and not the individual as the locus of the blame (Gilbert, 1974;E. Gordon, 1970;Gunnings & Simpkins, 1972;Finderhughes, 1966;R. Tucker & Gunnings, 1974).…”

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The African genesis of the Black perspective in helping.

Jackson¹

1976

Professional Psychology

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This article suggests that black Americans can be understood best from a design that recognizes a cultural connection to Africa, and it shows, through the illustration of specific strategies, that the more advantageous treatment of black clients would be based on an Afro perspective.A problem for many black people in America is not that they are without a culture or ancestry, but rather that their culture is rejected by the dominant cultural group (C. Thomas, 1973), who by their rejection imply that those unlike them are inferior, deprived, or culturally disadvantaged (Vontress, 1969). A more exemplary perspective, from the standpoint of black people, would be to recognize that blacks are not disadvantaged per se but are often placed in situations in which they are at a disadvantage (Simpkins, Gunnings, & Kearney, 1973), and therefore to appreciate their differences (Wittmer, 1971). One barrier, it is hypothesized, to the realization of the goal of cultural pluralism, is the exclusive use of what is termed the European cultural perspective. A second-order problem Requests for reprints should be sent to Gerald

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