ISBN:
9780197641439
,
0197641431
,
9780197641453
,
0197641458
,
9780197641446
,
019764144X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (828 pages)
,
illustrations, map
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Social work, white supremacy, and racial justice
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Racial justice
;
Social justice
;
Racism
;
Justice raciale - États-Unis
;
Justice sociale - États-Unis
;
Racisme - États-Unis
;
Racial justice
;
Racism
;
Social justice
;
United States
Abstract:
"The profession of social work in the United States has a complex history of perpetuating White supremacy and racism alongside a professed goal to achieve social justice and equality for all. The paradox of being situated as a justice-oriented profession that operates within structures of oppression and racial hierarchy has led to ongoing struggle over the definition and purpose of the profession itself. There are numerous discursive conflicts and actual harm that results from being actors in state sanctioned systems of unequal power while working toward a social justice ideal. Indeed, many scholars have discussed social work's paradoxical positions in relation to populations they purport to help: single women and mothers, Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities, and children and families struggling with poverty, oppression, and displacement (Abramovitz, 2017; Abrams & Curran, 2004; Thibeault & Spencer, 2019). Prior scholarship has centered around control and coercion with respect to the people that we profess to help (Fook, 2002); if social work is simply a tool to try to soften the blows of oppression, hence making oppressive conditions just slightly more "bearable" and thwarting resistance (Lundy, 2011). Other scholars have documented how social workers actively participate in state sanctioned racial violence (Roberts, 2002); and how the profession's social control function is in conflict with anti-oppression work (Abramowitz, 1998; Dominelli, 1996; Webb, 2006). This edited volume on Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice aspires to add context, insight and new ways of thinking to these critical conversations"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Contributors -- Introduction to Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice: Reckoning With Our History, Interrogating Our Present, Reimagining Our Future -- Part I: Social Work's Historical Legacy of Racism and White Supremacy -- Preface to Part I: How We Understand Our Past Will Shape Our Future -- Agents of Segregation: Social Workers, Institutions, and Urban Spaces
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Unveiling Racism in the College Settlement Movement: Susan Wharton, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the "Colored Investigation" of Philadelphia's Seventh Ward -- 2. The Response of School Social Work to Racial Segregation and Desegregation in American Public Schools -- 3. Gentrification and the History of Power and Oppression of Older African Americans in Washington, DC -- Social Work, Immigration, and Displacement -- 4. Tracing Absent Critiques: Racism, White Supremacy, and Anti-Asianism in Social Work's Discourses of Immigration
Description / Table of Contents:
5. From "Problem" to Mass Repatriation: Social Work, Racialization, and the Forced Deportation of Mexican-Origin Residents, 1917-1933 -- 6. Displacing a Community, Professionalizing a Practice: Race and Pathology in the Eviction of Malaga Island -- White Supremacy and Gendered Racism: Legacies of Exclusion and Coercion -- 7. Coercion and Institutional Racism in the Evolving Mental Health System -- 8. From Denial to Disproportionality: History of White Supremacy, Structural Racism, and the Child Welfare System -- 9. Institutional Racism in the Child Welfare System: A Social Justice Issue
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Mothers Who Receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: A Citizenship Accounting -- Part II: Reflections on our Past and Present: Addressing Racism from Within -- Preface to Part II: Calling Ourselves Out and Advocating for Change Within the Profession -- Calling Out Racism Through Uprooting Whiteness -- 11. Calling Out Racism in Social Work: Why We Should and Why We Don't -- 12. Everyday Whiteness and the Failure of the Private Life -- 13. Becoming Antiracist Social Workers -- Women of Color: Enduring and Confronting Racism Within the Profession -- 14. The Black Woman's Tax
Description / Table of Contents:
15. Survival and Resistance in the Academy: A Dialogue With Women of Color Faculty on Monsters and Monstrosity -- 16. Better Late Than Never: The Transformation Power of Black Feminist Thought -- 17. Keeping It 100: Innovative Ways to Combat Racism in Social Work Education -- Social Work Education: Combating Racism in Practice and Theory -- 18. Fifteen Years of Critical Race Theory in Social Work Education: What We've Learned -- 19. Examining the Antiracism Contributions of Black Male Social Work Educators Across Generations
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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