TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Community Psychology's abuse of empowerment to further a white supremacist agenda
JO  - American journal of community psychology
A1  - Tran, Nellie
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - When White people are predominantly in power and the discipline has yet to grapple with its own involvement in oppressive and racist ideologies, the concept of empowerment has the potential of being misused, or worse, abused. This is my experience and observation within Community Psychology (CP). In this paper, I interrogate the history of CP, especially the interplay of colonized knowledge production practices and the concept of empowerment, and uncover the use and abuse of well-meaning community psychological principles by scholars and leaders without the critical racial awareness to apply them to communities to which they do not belong. Lastly, I offer a "slash and burn" approach to starting over.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0091-0562
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12676
ID  - ref1
ER  -