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Additional authors

1. Abrams, Laura S.
2. Crewe, Sandra Edmonds
3. Dettlaff, Alan J.
4. Williams, James Herbert, 1950-

Description

1. xxxix, 828 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

1. "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"--

Subject

1. United States
2. Racism > United States
3. Social justice > United States
4. Racial justice > United States

Contents

1. Foreword / Iris Carlton-LaNey -- Introduction to 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, and James Herbert Williams -- 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 / Laura S. Abrams -- Agents of segregation : social workers, institutions, and urban spaces. 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 -- The response of school social work to racial segregation and desegregation in American public schools / Samantha Guz -- Gentrification and the history of power and oppression of older African Americans in Washington, DC / Robert L. Cosby -- Social work, immigration, and displacement. Tracing absent critiques : racism, white supremacy, and anti-Asianism in social work's discourses of immigration / Yoosun Park -- From "problem" to mass repatriation : social work, racialization, and the forced deportation of Mexican-origin residents, 1917-1933 / Benjamin J. Roth -- Displacing a community, professionalizing a practice : race and pathology in the eviction of Malaga Island / Alicia Chatterjee -- White supremacy and gendered racism : legacies of exclusion and coercion. Coercion and institutional racism in the evolving mental health system / Melissa G. Murphy -- From denial to disproportionality : history of white supremacy, structural racism, and the child welfare system / Kristen L. Selleck, Ashley M. Toland, and Joan M. Blakey -- Institutional racism in the child welfare system : a social justice issue / Jenny Jones and Christin D. Haynes -- 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. Preface to part II. Calling ourselves out and advocating for change within the profession / Sandra Edmonds Crewe -- Calling out racism through uprooting whiteness. Calling out racism in social work : why we should and why we don't / Tracy R. Whitaker -- Everyday whiteness and the failure of the private life / William R. Frey -- Becoming antiracist social workers / Marion L. Malcome and Brit Holmberg -- Women of color : enduring and confronting racism within the profession. The Black woman's tax / Rebecca Chaisson, Rae Stevenson, Marva L. Lewis, and Joan M. Blakey -- Survival and resistance in the academy : a dialogue with women of color faculty on monsters and monstrosity / Antonia R.G. Alvarez, Lakindra Mitchell Dove, Gita R. Mehrotra, Jessica Rodriguez-Jenkins, Roberta Hunte, and Alma M. Ouanesisouk Trinidad -- Better late than never : the transformation power of Black feminist thought / Brittany Ribeiro Brown and Tariro Nussinov -- Keeping it 100 : innovative ways to combat racism in social work education / Gabrielle Aquino-Adriatico -- Social work education : combating racism in practice and theory. Fifteen years of critical race theory in social work education : what we've learned / Adriana Aldana, Susan Lares Nakaoka, Nicole Vazquez, and Larry Ortiz -- Examining the antiracism contributions of Black male social work educators across generations / Jerome H. Schiele, Joshua Kirven, Sean Joe, Martell L. Teasley, and Brian Sales -- Social work's blame game : Blackness, neoliberalism, and the profession's turn away from organizing / Lukas Champagne and Robert Fisher -- Part III. Envisioning an antiracist future : from practice to policy. Preface to part III. he future we wish to see will not come easily / Alan J. Dettlaff -- Toward a new vision of society powered by our moral imagination. Using futures thinking to imagine the evolution of antiracism practice in social work : four scenarios that may or may not involve a future for the profession / Laura Burney Nissen, Lillian Beuadoin, Finn Bell, Samuel L. Bradley Jr., Lonny Avi Brooks, Jake Dunagan, and Danielle Littman -- Imagining a new world through Afrofuturism : a response to racism within the social work profession / Lakindra Mitchell Dove -- Beyond reimagining Black lives / Troy Harden and Cindy Eigler -- Abolitionist strategies for achieving liberation. Making policy obsolete : the harms of policing and an abolitionist social work response / Noor Toraif and Justin C. Mueller -- The role of social workers in transforming the American educational system as a means to carceral abolition / Alizé B. Hill, Durrell Malik Washington Sr., Toyan Harper, and Lester J. Kern -- Black mothers matter : reimagining child protection and a state that supports Black mothers / Natane Eaddy, Marcía Hopkins, and Dominique Mikell Montgomery -- The subjection and spectacle of social work : deconstructing and reckoning with social work's power of policing / Michael Rangel -- Reimagining our future starts now : social work's role in radical change. Radically imagining antiracist social work research using a trauma-informed, socially just framework / Meredith W. Francis, Alexis Jemal, Laura A. Voith, Hyunjune Lee, Amy E. Korsch-Williams, Anna Ortega-Williams, and Tyrone Hamler -- Envisioning antiracist social work organizational change : amplifying the grey literature / Colleen Daly Martinez and Jeena Williams -- Toward a historically accountable critical whiteness curriculum for social work / Joshua R. Gregory -- Part IV. Strategies for achieving racial justice in social work education. Preface to part IV. Implementing an antiracism approach to social work education / James Herbert Williams -- Dismantling anti-racist pedagogies in social work education. Riotous research : a critical trauma theory to uplift the language of those unheard : Black, Indigenous, and social work students of color / Anna Nelson and Kristi Kew -- Advancing culturally disruptive pedagogies to dismantle anti-Black racism in the generalist social work curriculum / Vannessa Gharbi and Tiffany D. Baffour -- Envisioning a future for social work : looking back, looking forward. Taking a look in the mirror to see the future : equitable creative placemaking and social work / Chandra Crudup, Chris Fike, and Claire McLoone -- Envisioning an antiracist profession : a qualitative content analysis of the literature to aid social work's quest toward racial reckoning and social justice / Ebony Perez and Anna Nelson -- LatCrit and social work epistemology : dismantling whiteness in ways of knowing / Susan Lares Nakaoka, Adriana Aldana, and Larry Ortiz -- Whiteness and white supremacy : theory, education, and practice. Imagining the end of racism through ending white supremacy : implications for social work education and practice / Martell L. Teasley -- Managing white fragility : teaching while Black / Yolanda Spears -- Creating an anticolonial academic space for social work education / Ann M. Seymour and Margaret Janse van Rensburg -- Antiracist, antioppressive social work education and practice. Resisting curriculum violence and developing antioppresive, trauma-informed, culturally sustaining approaches for social work education and practice / Caroline N. Sharkey, Chris Strickland, and Jennifer Elkins -- Remedying the foundation of social work education : toward an actionable antiracist pedagogy / Braveheart Gillani, Autumn Asher BlackDeer, and Flora Cohen.

Call number

1. Sc F 25-40

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

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

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Abrams, Laura S., editor.
2. Crewe, Sandra Edmonds, editor.
3. Dettlaff, Alan J., editor.
4. Williams, James Herbert, 1950- editor.

Other form:

1. Online version: Social work, White supremacy, and racial justice. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] 9780197641453 (DLC) 2023017305 (OCoLC)1388492317

LCCN

1. 2023017304

ISBN

1. 9780197641422 (hardback ; alk. paper)
2. 0197641423 (hardback ; alk. paper)

Research call number

1. Sc F 25-40