Social work, White supremacy, and racial justice : reckoning with our history, interrogating our present, reimagining our future

Social work, White supremacy, and racial justice : reckoning with our history, interrogating our present, reimagining our future / Laura S. Abrams, Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Alan J. Dettlaff, James Herbert Williams.

"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 oppre...

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Other Authors: Abrams, Laura S. (Editor), Crewe, Sandra Edmonds (Editor), Dettlaff, Alan J. (Editor), Williams, James Herbert, 1950- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Racial justice > United States.
Social justice > United States.
Racism > United States.
Racial justice
Racism
Social justice
Social services & welfare, criminology.
Society.
United States
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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 / Amy Hillier and Stephanie C. Boddie
  • 2. The response of school social work to racial segregation and desegregation in American public schools / Samantha Guz
  • 3. Gentrification and the history of power and oppression of older African Americans in Washington, DC / Robert L. Cosby
  • 4. Tracing absent critiques: racism, white supremacy, and anti-Asianism in social work's discourses of immigration / Yoosun Park
  • 5. From "problem" to mass repatriation: social work, racialization, and the forced deportation of Mexican-origin residents, 1917-1933 / Benjamin J. Roth
  • 6. Displacing a community, professionalizing a practice: race and pathology in the eviction of Malaga Island / Alicia Chatterjee
  • 7. Coercion and institutional racism in the evolving mental health system / Melissa G. Murphy
  • 8. From denial to disproportionality: history of white supremacy, structural racism, and the child welfare system / Kristen L. Selleck and others
  • 9. Institutional racism in the child welfare system: a social justice issue / Jenny Jones and Christin D. Haynes
  • 10. Mothers who receive temporary assistance for needy families: a citizenship accounting / Jessica Toft
  • Part II: Reflections on our past and present: addressing racism from within
  • 11. Calling out racism in social work: why we should and why we don't / Tracy R. Whitaker
  • 12. Everyday whiteness and the failure of the private life / William R. Frey
  • 13. Becoming antiracist social workers / Marion L. Malcome and Brit Holmberg
  • 14. The black woman's tax / Rebecca Chaisson and others
  • 15. Survival and resistance in the academy: a dialogue with women of color faculty on monsters and monstrosity / Antonia R. G. Alvarez and others
  • 16. Better late than never: the transformation power of Black feminist thought / Brittany Ribeiro Brown and Tariro Nussinov
  • 17. Keeping it 100: innovative ways to combat racism in social work education / Gabrielle Aquino-Adriatico
  • 18. Fifteen years of critical race theory in social work education: what we've learned / Adriana Aldana and others
  • 19. Examining the antiracism contributions of Black male social work educators across generations / Jerome H. Schiele and others
  • 20. Social work's blame game: blackness, neoliberalism, and the profession's turn away from organizing / Lukas Champagne and Robert Fisher.

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