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It has been my great honor to serve more than thirty years as a trusted counselor, coach, and consultant for a wide socio-economic spectrum of students, staff, administrators, and community members who live and work in multi-cultural settings. A few common threads that have surfaced in my interactions have been that of:
(1) An individual coming to me for assistance in dealing with a complex situation that is discriminatory in nature.
(2) Individuals...
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Interracial Relationships Between Black Women and White Men contains vignettes on the lives of black women who are dating, married to, or divorced from white men. Black women and white men in interracial relationships were interviewed between 2014 and 2017 to learn how they met and how their relationships progressed. These forty interviews offer thought-provoking insights on the lives of those willing to cross the racial divide in pursuit of personal...
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America now strains under the collective consequences of racism, drug and alcohol abuse, political corruption, sexual assault, dysfunctional homes, crime, incarceration, materialism, negativity, declining spirituality, and a myriad of crippling addictions.
Our current social crisis goes much deeper than politics and policies. What we are witnessing is a national crisis of character. It is a crisis born from a lack of leadership by parents for their...
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Warning: this book will not be conventional in the sense that it will try to provide politically correct answers to the problems that we are facing in urban America. A subject of this matter requires a deeper analysis that goes well beyond the scope of one's typical way of thinking, so I wrote this book as a starting point in an attempt to address such matters. We must explore unconventional solutions, or at least view the situation from an unconventional...
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In "Barriers to Love," psychotherapist Marina Peralta uses her own life story to address the question of bisexual identity. Set in Mexico and California, Marina reveals how early sexual abuse led to sexual confusion in her adolescence. Jilted by her first boyfriend, comforted by a lesbian, and controlled by her widowed mother, she marries an emotionally detached man, and finds love with a woman. With vivid honesty, she portrays her love affairs with...
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