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Assignment: Race, Empowerment, and Cultural Competence

The ideas, attitudes, values, and beliefs with which people are surrounded as they grow up inform their perceptions about themselves and their place in the world. Family and religious systems are usually the first place that people get messages about themselves and others. Those messages can be positive and illustrate how important it is to embrace difference, or they can be full of hate and intolerance. For this Assignment, consider how your own ideas about race and ethnicity have been influenced by those around you.

Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 9:00 pm a 2- to 4-page paper that answers the following question: How does your family and religious systems lead to your ideas about your own racial ethnic group as well as the racial and ethnic group of others? Be sure to address the concepts of ethnocentric practice, empowerment and cultural competence. Please use the Learning Resources to support your answer.

Reading/References

Zastrow, C. H., & Kirst-Ashman, K. K. (2016). Understanding human behavior and the social

environment (10th ed.). Boston, MA:  Cengage Learning.

o    Chapter 5 (pp. 254-294)

Cristol, D., & Gimbert, B. (2008). Racial perceptions of young children: A review of literature

post-1999. Early Childhood Education Journal, 36(2), 201–207. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Patcher, L. M., Szalacha, L. A., Bernstein, B., & Garcia Coil, C. (2010). Perceptions of racism in

children and youth: Properties as a self-report instrument for research on children’s health and development. Ethnicity & Health, 15(1), 33–46. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.