Argumentum ad misericordiam - the critical intimacies of victimhood

This article discusses the widespread use of victim tropes in contemporary Anglo-American culture by using cultural theory to analyse key social media memes circulating on Facebook in 2015. Since the growth of social media, victim stories have been proliferating, and each demands a response. Victim narratives are rhetorical, they are designed to elicit pity and shame the perpetrator. They are deployed to stimulate political debate and activism, as well as to appeal to an all-purpose humanitarianism. Victimology has its origins in Law and Criminology, but this paper opens up the field more broadly to think about the cultural politics of victimhood, to consider how the victim-figure can be appropriated by/for different purposes, particularly racial and gender politics, including in the case of Rachel Dolezal, and racial passing. In formulating an ethical response to the lived experience of victims, we need to think about the different kinds of critical intimacies elicited by such media

Counseling the culturally different theory and practice

xvi, 303 p.; 23 cm

Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Making the “Invisible” Visible

Derald Wing Sue, Ph.D., is the winner of the prestigious American Psychological Foundation APF 2015 Gold Medal for Life Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest. He is a professor of psychology and education in the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he also holds a joint appointment with the School of Social Work. He is one of the most cited multicultural scholars in the United States. Dr. Derald Wing Sue’s 19 books vary in topics including multicultural counseling and psychotherapy, psychology of racism and antiracism, cultural diversity, cultural competence and multicultural organizational development, and more specifically, multicultural competencies and racial microaggressions. His latest two books are entitled Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues in Race along with Case Studies in Multicultural Counseling and Therapy

Understanding abnormal behavior

xix, 613[47] p. : il.; 29 c

Introduction to psychology

xii, 516 p.; 23 cm