Full Description
Dual Pandemics: Creating Racially Just Responses to a Changing Environment through Research, Practice and Education commits to promoting and disseminating knowledge that calls for the dismantling of systemic racism and creating racially just responses to the dual pandemics.
COVID-19 and anti-racist uprisings as a result of the murders of Mr. George Floyd and many other African Americans and other people of color due to police violence has unprecedented impact on our society. While these two pandemics appear to be different in nature, both pandemics attest to the fact that systemic racism continues to be a grand challenge and that COVID-19 differentially affects communities and people of color as well as socially disadvantaged groups. This book offers intellectually sound examination, conceptualization, and rigor in providing viable, socially just, responsive paths forward. The volume include chapters that focus on anti-racist pedagogy in social work education, conceptual discussion contributing to refining a shared understanding of constructs relevant to anti-racist social work, and micro, mezzo, and macro social work practice that aims to prevent or eliminate the negative impact of racism as well as promote racial justice, equity, and inclusion among individuals, families, groups, organizations, or communities.
This book will be of great value to students and scholars of Social Work, Public Policy, Race and Ethnic Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work.
Contents
Introduction—Dual pandemics: creating racially-just responses to a changing environment through research, practice and education Part 1 - Anti-racist pedagogy in social work education 1. Dual pandemics awaken urgent call to advance anti-racism education in social work: pedagogical illustrations 2. Advancing critical race pedagogical approaches in social work education 3. Coloniality of power, critical realism and critical consciousness: the three "C" framework 4. Anti-racism and equity-mindedness in social work field education: a systematic review 5. "Talking about race is exhausting": social work educators' experiences teaching about race and racism Part 2 - Conceptualizing anti-racist social work practice and research 6. Dual pandemics or a syndemic? Racism, COVID-19, and opportunities for antiracist social work 7. Visualizing structural competency: moving beyond cultural competence/ humility toward eliminating racism 8. From social justice to abolition: living up to social work's grand challenge of eliminating racism 9. Power knowledge in social work: educating social workers to practice racial justice 10. Ethical mental health practice in diverse cultures and races Part 3- Impact of dual pandemics on special groups and populations 11. Necessary, yet mistreated: the lived experiences of black women essential workers in dual pandemics of racism and COVID-19 12. Demanding migrant/immigrant labor in the coronavirus crisis: critical perspectives for social work practice 13. Mask mandates, race, and protests of summer 2020 14. Model Minority Mutiny: addressing anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic in social work 15. Conceptualizing anti-Asian racism in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: A call for action to social workers
