Description
The profession of social work in the United States has a complex history of upholding White supremacy alongside a goal of achieving racial justice. Moreover, the profession simultaneously practices within racist institutions and systems and works to dismantle them. While there are many ways that the profession of social work has improved quality of life for minoritized groups, there are numerous missed opportunities where we have failed to uphold our values. In the wake of national movements to stop state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism and the knowledge of persistent racial disparities in key social welfare institutions (i.e., child welfare, criminal justice, health, housing, and mental health), these paradoxes remain the forefront of discussion in academia, social media, and social work practice. The aftermath of these national efforts provided an opportunity to appraise our profession's relationship to White supremacy and racial justice in order to reimagine and work to achieve an anti-racist future. In this edited volume, the authors critically examine social work's history, values, and mission, offer innovative strategies for education and practice, and make a call-to-action for social work to eliminate structural racism in education, research, practice, and social service institutions and systems. A collection of 40 chapters using diverse voices, theories, and methods challenges us to conceptualize and enact an anti-racist future through reckoning with our past histories of oppression and resistance, de-centering whiteness, and forging new practices, policies, and pedagogies that can lead to an anti-racist future.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsForewordIntroductionPART I: SOCIAL WORK'S HISTORICAL LEGACY OF RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACYPreface to Part I: How We Understand Our Past Will Shape Our Future Agents of Segregation: Social Workers, Institutions, and Urban Spaces Chapter 1. Unveiling Racism in the College Settlement Movement: Susan Wharton, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the "Colored Investigation" of Philadelphia's Seventh Ward Chapter 2. The Response of School Social Work to Racial Segregation and Desegregation in American Public SchoolsChapter 3. Gentrification and the History of Power and Oppression of Older African Americans in Washington DC: Looking through a Social Welfare and Housing Policy LensSocial Work, Immigration and DisplacementChapter 4. Tracing Absent Critiques: Racism, White Supremacy and Anti-Asianism in Social Work's Discourses of ImmigrationChapter 5. From "Problem" to Mass Repatriation: Social Work, Racialization, and the Forced Deportation of Mexican-Origin Residents, 1917-1933Chapter 6. Displacing a Community, Professionalizing a Practice: Race and Pathology in the Eviction of Malaga IslandWhite Supremacy and Gendered Racism: Legacies of Exclusion and CoercionChapter 7. Coercion and Institutional Racism in the Evolving Mental Health System: Social Workers as both the Problem and the SolutionChapter 8. From Denial to Disproportionality: History of White Supremacy, Structural Racism, and the Child Welfare SystemChapter 9. Institutional Racism in the Child Welfare System: A Social Justice Issue Chapter 10. Mothers Who Receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: A Citizenship AccountingPART II: REFLECTIONS ON OUR PAST AND PRESENT: ADDRESSING RACISM FROM WITHINPreface to Part II: Calling Ourselves Out and Advocating for Change within the ProfessionWomen of Color: Enduring and Confronting Racism within the ProfessionChapter 11. Calling Out Racism in Social Work: Why We Should and Why We Don'tChapter 12. Everyday Whiteness and the Failure of the Private LifeChapter 13. Becoming Anti-Racist Social Workers Social Work Education: Combatting Racism in Practice and TheoryChapter 14. The Black Woman's TaxChapter 15. Survival and Resistance in the Academy: A Dialogue with Women of Color FacultyChapter 16. Better Late than Never: The Transformation Power of Black Feminist ThoughtChapter 17. Keeping it 100: Innovative Ways to Combat Racism in Social Work EducationCalling Out Racism through Uprooting WhitenessChapter 18. Fifteen Years of Critical Race Theory in Social Work Education: What We've LearnedChapter 19. Examining the Antiracism Contributions of Black Male Social Work Educators Across GenerationsChapter 20. Social Work's Blame Game: Blackness, Neoliberalism, and the Profession's Turn Away from OrganizingPART III: ENVISIONING AN ANTI-RACIST FUTURE: FROM PRACTICE TO POLICYPreface to Part III: The Future We Wish To See Will Not Come EasilyToward a New Vision of Society Powered by Our Moral Imagination Chapter 21. Using Futures Thinking to Imagine the Evolution of Anti-Racism in Social Work: Four Scenarios that May or May Not Involve a Future for the ProfessionChapter 22. Imagining a New World Through Afrofuturism: A Response to Racism Within the Social Work Profession Chapter 23. Beyond Re-Imagining Black Lives Abolitionist Strategies for Achieving Liberation Chapter 24. Making Policing Obsolete: The Harms of Policing and an Abolitionist Social Work Response Chapter 25. The Role of Social Workers in Transforming the American Educational System as a Means to Carceral Abolition Chapter 26. Black Mothers Matter: Reimagining Child Protection and a State that Supports Black Mothers Chapter 27. The Subjection and Spectacle of Social Work: Deconstructing and Reckoning With Social Work's Power of Policing Reimagining Our Future Starts Now: Social Work's Role in Radical Change Chapter 28. Radically Imagining Anti-Racist Social Work Research Using a Trauma-Informed, Socially Just FrameworkChapter 29. Envisioning Anti-Racist Social Work Organizational Change: Amplifying the Grey LiteratureChapter 30. Toward a Historically Accountable Critical Whiteness Curriculum for Social WorkPART IV: STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING RACIAL JUSTICE IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATIONPreface to Part IV: Implementing an Anti-Racism Approach to Social Work EducationDismantling Anti-Racist Pedagogies in Social Work EducationChapter 31. Riotous Research: A Critical Trauma Theory to Uplift the Language of Those Unheard--Black, Indigenous and Social Work Students of ColorChapter 32. Advancing Culturally Disruptive Pedagogies to Dismantle Anti-Black Racism in the Generalist Social Work CurriculumEnvisioning a Future for Social Work: Looking Back, Looking ForwardChapter 33. Taking a Look in the Mirror to See the Future: Equitable Creative Placemaking and Social WorkChapter 34. Envisioning an Antiracist Profession: A Qualitative Content Analysis of the Literature to Aid Social Work's Quest Toward Racial Reckoning and Social JusticeChapter 35. LatCrit and Social Work Epistemology--Dismantling Whiteness in Ways of KnowingWhiteness and White Supremacy: Theory, Education, and PracticeChapter 36. Imagining the End of Racism through Ending White Supremacy: Implications for Social Work Education and PracticeChapter 37. Managing White Fragility: Teaching While BlackChapter 38. Creating an Anti-Colonial Academic Space for Social Work EducationAnti-Racist, Anti-Oppressive Social Work Education and PracticeChapter 39. Resisting Curriculum Violence and Developing Anti-Oppressive, Trauma-Informed, Culturally Sustaining Approaches for Social Work Education And PracticeChapter 40. Remedying the Foundation of Social Work Education: Towards an Actionable Anti-Racist PedagogyAfterword
