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University Of Minnesota Offers Lecture Teaching 12-Step AA-Type Program To Recover From Being White

Hank Berrien
University Of Minnesota Offers Lecture Teaching 12-Step AA-Type Program To Recover From Being White
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The University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work and Continuing Education Series recently hosted what they called a Special Webinar Series that was titled, “Deconstructing & Decentralizing White-ness in Practice: A Three-Part Series,” in which a lecture titled “Recovery from White Conditioning” taught white people how to use a “12-step” program similar to Alcoholics Anonymous to “recover and reclaim our full humanity.”

Therapist Cristina Combs, who created the program, spent “years of struggling to navigate the role and presence of whiteness in her personal, academic, and professional journeys,” the website for the series claims.

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