I found this article recently with information derived from focus groups of African American males on the topic of violence against women which seems very relevant to this discussion:
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/FinalDocuments/2Oliver.htm Cheryl Soehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4 Feb 2002, Juergen Dankwort wrote: > >Michelle Bograd (1994, p. 595) has written of the importance for >facilitators to know how to "balance the batterer as simultaneously >wounding and wounded." Oliver Williams (1998) notes that healing is >intrinsic to the legacy of slavery and an essential construct in the >process for African American men who have assaulted their intimate >partners. Facilitators working with African-American men have >reported that they must address racism before they can focus on >partner abuse, and that a "Black curriculum" enables African-American >men "to construct their own existence and reality" (Healey, Smith & >O'Sullivan, 1998, pp 68-69). A prescription for holistic healing and >restorative justice as essential with a population's experiences of >colonization is prominent in domestic violence work with Latinos >(Carillo & Goubaud-Reyna, 1998), African-Americans (Williams, 1998), >First Nations peoples in Canada (Canadian Council on Social >Development, 1993; Wood, 1992), and American Indians throughout the >United States (National Institute of Justice, 1998). Battered gay men >and members of a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) task >force in a recent Texas community audit of domestic violence >resources reported that interventions with offending men should never >result in their ostracism from their community. From this diverse >span of culturally sensitive counseling, it would seem instructive to >consider how the curricula of programs for minority offender >populations might hold out potential lessons for those in the >non-minority population. It seems pertinent to ask why their >directives are less relevant for other programs. > ***End-violence is sponsored by UNIFEM and receives generous support from ICAP*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe end-violence OR type: unsubscribe end-violence Archives of previous End-violence messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/end-violence/hypermail/
