Experiencing race as a music therapist : personal narratives / Susan Hadley.

Includes bibliographical references.

Dedications -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- Autumn Leaves -- Introduction: Let�s Talk About Race -- Narrative One Living and Working Between Worlds -- Narrative Two Reflections on the Complexities and Paradoxes of Identity -- Narrative Three This Skin I Am In -- Narrative Four Reflections on Race in a Shifting South Africa -- Narrative Five The View from the Floor -- Narrative Six Well, Just Shut Up and Bloody Listen! -- Narrative Seven Changing Levels of Comfort: Living and Working in Different Communities

Narrative Eight He HikoiNarrative Nine Trying to Escape the Shackles of White Colonialism -- Narrative Ten Creating a Path in the Middle -- Narrative Eleven Why Do I Care About Race? -- Narrative Twelve Bringing My Asian Identity to Light Through Acculturation -- Narrative Thirteen Direct Encounters: Challenging My Sense of Self as a Good, Moral Person -- Narrative Fourteen Seeing Through Both Lenses -- Narrative Fifteen Does Your Family Drive Camels? -- Narrative Sixteen “You Don�t Look/Sound/Act Puerto Rican�: Experiencing Myself as an Exception

"Experiencing Race as a Music Therapist: Personal Narratives is a compilation of critically engaging narratives that grew out of conversations with 17 music therapists living in different parts of the world, from various racial groups, about their experiences of their racialized identities in the therapy setting. The music therapists describe the raced and cultural contexts in which they were born and describe the racial demographics of the places they have lived at various times in their lives. The countries in which the individual music therapists spent their formative years include Australia, Canada, Iran, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States, with many of them also having traveled to other countries. The music therapists discussed their specific experiences of their racialized identities when they were studying music therapy and how they experienced their racialized identities in their professional lives. Many of them also described the differences they were aware of in terms of how they experienced themselves as raced or how they experienced the therapeutic relationship when they were working with people of their own race compared with working with people who were from a different race. From these narratives, we can see that our life experiences shape how we understand ourselves and others, our assumptions and biases, and the effort with which we form relationships with different groups of people. The music therapists in this book have shared their experiences in the hope that we can learn how to sit in our discomfort, without judgment, lowering our defenses, in order to learn more about ourselves and others, so that we can deepen our understandings and our relationships across racialized lines."--Publisher's description.

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