Full Description
This book explores how social work can navigate and shape the rapidly evolving dynamics of race, ethnicity, and culture. At a time when national debates and global changes are intensifying, this book provides a much-needed intellectual space to critically examine the current landscape and envision a future that aligns with social work's core values of justice, equity, and inclusion.
Through a collection of thought-provoking chapters, the book delves into the challenges and opportunities that race, ethnicity, and culture present for social work practice, research, and education. Each chapter offers a reflective and critical appraisal of the present while proposing creative, preventive, and innovative solutions to promote racial and social justice. The authors encourage readers to embrace future thinking—an equity-centered, proactive approach that empowers us to co-create a more just and inclusive world rather than passively accept one dictated by external forces.
This book is an essential resource for students, social work practitioners, educators, and researchers interested in racial and social justice, cultural competence, equity-centered practice, and innovative approaches to social work education.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work.
Contents
Introduction: The future of race, ethnicity, and culture in social work: challenges and opportunities 1. Reconciling the past and shaping the future: The importance of social work history in the Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism 2. Social work's grandest challenge: re-contextualizing racism and reducing its deleterious effects on its members and those we serve 3. Decolonizing big data: addressing data colonialism in social work's grand challenges 4. Advancing the grand challenge to eliminate racism: a call to action for citational justice in social work 5. Epistemic ethics justice: a "radical imaginary" 6. Infusing social justice into the signature pedagogy: a decision-making model emphasizing anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI) in social work practicum 7. Eliminating racial disparities in policing: a social work infusion model 8. The intersectionality of race, gender, and low-wage work 9. Antisemitism and social work: challenges and opportunities for education and practice 10. Invisible no more: the intersectionality of Asian American immigrants experiences 11. An incongruence between policy, practice, and cultural values: implications for mental health services in Namibia 12. The shoe on the other foot: considering oppression for BIPOC social workers 13. Reproductive violence and environmental injustice in the United States: opportunities to promote justice, equity, and inclusion
