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  • Essay / Antiracist critical praxis: the oppression of the social...

    According to Dei & Caliste (2000), this form of modern racism is based, among other things, on socially created conditions that maintain and reinforce such an environment. . A critical understanding of structural patterns, the identity of the dominant group and its social situation requires that these practices be identified. Second, being aware of the invisibility of whiteness can dismantle the system of oppression (Yee, 2005, p. 90). Recognition is not enough since social workers are in collusion with the status quo. Although they recognize its existence, they do not see themselves as involved in the same structure that oppresses them. Third, when the systematic oppression and clandestine identity of Whites has been realized, the debate may shift from a common generalization of Whites to a more contemporary understanding of patterns of racism (ibid., p. 91). There must be a conscious exposure of the action of the dominant group as inviolable and natural; any analysis must reveal what identity and culture operate to further perpetuate this systemic form of oppression and racism in practice. Last but not least, an effective and meaningful solution to the problem requires an understanding of whiteness and oppression (ibid, p. 95). Otherwise, it will be more of a rhetorical conflict than, as Dei and Caliste (2000) suggest, an analysis of race relations within a broader sociological framework..