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The Institute for Recovery from Racismsâ Fr. Clarence Williams, CPPS, Ph.D. Director |
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The Institute for Recovery from Racismsâ Fr. Clarence Williams, CPPS, Ph.D. Director |
Recovering from Everyday Racisms is an approach to deal with the social illness of racism from the perspective of intervention. This intervention focuses on the erroneous belief system of racial caste hierarchy, and the resulting dysfunctional behaviors originating from our racialized formation in a culture of white supremacy.
The author outlines a treatment program borrowing from the work of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ "death and dying" stages. The program is designed to assist individuals and groups recovering from their collusion with white supremacy, and invites them to become collaborators in New Family formation. In place of their racialized self, the new self emerges as a person who sees everyone as their sister and brother.
Williams uses the metaphor of the dysfunctional family to describe the racial interaction patterns in the Americas, and the global village. Through the paradigm of family dysfunction, he constructs a treatment plan that allows the individual and/or the group to begin the journey from racial dysfunction to racial sobriety.
The stages in the recovery process are the same for Whites and Nonwhites, but the focal content of the issues are different. There are six communities of origin that are profiled in the racisms recovery program: White Supremacy, Whites Relating to Nonwhites, Nonwhites Relating to Whites, Nonwhite Supremacy, Colorists and Intermediates. Each group has a different response to white supremacy, which results in not one racism, but "racisms."
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