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Introduction: Basic Conceptual Framework of the Book ix
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Understanding Groups as Psychodynamic Systems in the Context of Racial and Cultural Factors: Theoretical Framework 1
Open Systems Theory and Experiential Learning 2
Group Relations Theory 3
Research on Racial and Cultural Group Dynamics 7
Application and Universality of the Group Relations Model 9
Summary 10
2 Working With Differences in Groups: Ethical Considerations 13
Multiculturalism and Ethical Guidelines 14
Principles of Ethical Behavior 18
Ethical Issues in Group Work 19
Training 19
Role Clarity and Leader Values 21
Dual Relationships 23
Informed Consent 23
Psychological Risks 24
Summary 27
3 Group Formation: Racial and Cultural Dynamics of Entering and Joining 29
Embedded Intergroup Relations Theory and Group Formation 31
Paradox in Groups 32
Paradoxes of Belonging 32
The Paradox of Identity 33
The Paradox of Involvement 36
The Paradox of Individuality 37
The Paradox of Boundaries 39
Summary 41
4 Group Development: The Impact of Racial and Cultural Factors 43
Models of Group Development 44
Progressive Models 44
Cyclical Models 45
Nonsequential Models 46
Recurring Issues 46
Racial and Cultural Issues in Groups 47
Boundaries: Drawing the Lines 47
The Fight for Power 51
Relationships: Moving Closer, Understanding More 54
Terminating the Group 55
Summary 57
5 Group Dynamics in Racially and Culturally Mixed Groups 59
Psychoanalytic Concepts 59
Splitting 60
Projection 60
Projective Identification 62
Systems Approach 63
Group Relations Theory 68
Racial and Cultural Dynamics and GroupRelations Theory 69
Case Example 75
Summary 78
6 Social Roles in Groups 79
Person-in-Role 80
Social Roles in Groups 81
Social Roles and Defense Mechanisms: Role Suction and Role Types 83
The Leader 84
The Follower 86
The Rebel/Alternative Leader 87
The Mediator 87
The Scapegoat 88
Summary 91
7 Leadership, Authority, and Power in Racially and Culturally Mixed Groups 93
Authority 94
Leadership 95
Power 96
Racial and Cultural Identity Development Theory 96
Racial and Cultural Identity Development for People of Color 96
White Racial and Cultural Identity Attitudes 98
Cultural Values 100
Leadership in Racially and Culturally Mixed Groups 100
Case Examples 108
Summary 111
8 Strategies for Leadership in Multicultural Groups 113
The AKRI Competencies 113
Prerequisite Competencies 115
Stage 1 and Stage 2 Competencies 116
Summary 129
9 The Mature Work Group 131
What Is the Mature Work Group? 132
What Does a Mature Work Group Look and Sound Like? 133
Characteristics of a Mature Work Group 133
An Example of a Mature Work Group 136
Strategies for Assisting the Mature Work Group 140
Outcomes of the Mature Work Group 141
Summary 143
Mature Work Group Assessment Form 145
10 Termination 147
A Reflective Time 147
Ambivalent Feelings About Termination 148
Premature Termination 149
Cultural Values and Termination 150
Summary 153
References 155
Index 163
About the Authors 167
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Jonny Martin
reviewed Racial and Cultural Dynamics in Group and Organizational Life: Crossing Boundaries on July 17, 2020
Racial and Cultural Dynamics in Group and Organizational Life
If the theological academy as we have known it is under deadly threat, Kameron Carter's Race is an argument for its survival. Only those historically unusual conditions could have produced this tremendous work. Its writing and reading requires training in multiple, specific humanistic disciplines: I might list history, philosophy, critical theory, and the study of religion, in addition to systematic and historical theology. Apart from the academy, this book would be incomprehensible and probably indefensible. Within the academy, it preaches the gospel, in a new and necessary form.
Carter binds many disparate arguments together between these covers'no one would mistake this for something other than a much-revised dissertation, built from separate chapters. Yet a single argument animates all of them, specifically, a claim that only theology can successfully narrate the history and present of race. Only theology, and specifically only the Christian gospel, can remove this category from our thinking, just as only God can save us from racism.
For Carter, working from a high theology, the doctrine of the Trinity is the grounding for all Christian speech and the standard of human truth. Within the Trinity, difference is revealed as a legitimate category, as a condition of God's own being, as the aspect of God's own being made concrete or actual in creation. Understood in light of this revelation, differences among humans become a road into the life of the Trinity, an aspect of human beings' growing fully into the image and likeness of God, living out our destiny'for Carter, as for the African Orthodox like Athanasius, a destiny called divinization. "Modern logics of race foreclose" that possibility by any number of means, played out across the humanistic disciplines that have adopted the category of race, theology among them. By returning to theology, and indeed to the Christian God who is revealed in and lived into through difference, we can imagine something new, something rooted not in purity but in what Carter later calls "the miscegenized or mulattic existence of divinization" (192).
The weaknesses of this book are standard for an academic text. Carter is far too harsh on his predecessors and on scholars outside his own discipline-- and I say that as someone who works in his discipline and agrees with essentially all of his premises and method. Nonspecialists will probably find it impenetrable. Those whose time and background let them read this book at all, however, will find it hugely rewarding.
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