Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice Reckoning With Our History, Interrogating our Present, Reimagining our Future

by Abrams, Laura; Crewe, Sandra Edmonds; Dettlaff, Alan J.; Williams, James Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780197641422
• ISBN10: 0197641423
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-11-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Laura S. Abrams, PhD is a Professor of Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She received her BA in history from Brandeis University and her MSW and PhD from the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare.

Sandra Edmonds Crewe, PhD, MSW, BSW, ACSW is Dean and Professor, Howard University School of Social Work. She received her BSW/MSW from the National Catholic School of Social Service, Catholic University of America, and inaugural Ph.D. social work degree from Howard University, Washington, DC.

Alan J. Dettlaff, PhD is Dean of the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston and the inaugural Maconda Brown O'Connor Endowed Dean's Chair.

James Herbert Williams, PhD., MSW, MPA is the Arizona Centennial Professor of Social Welfare Services at the School of Social Work at Arizona State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Foreword

Introduction

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

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 Schools

Chapter 3. Gentrification and the History of Power and Oppression of Older African Americans in Washington DC: Looking through a Social Welfare and Housing Policy Lens

Social Work, Immigration and Displacement

Chapter 4. Tracing Absent Critiques: Racism, White Supremacy and Anti-Asianism in Social Work's Discourses of Immigration

Chapter 5. From "Problem" to Mass Repatriation: Social Work, Racialization, and the Forced Deportation of Mexican-Origin Residents, 1917-1933

Chapter 6. Displacing a Community, Professionalizing a Practice: Race and Pathology in the Eviction of Malaga Island

White Supremacy and Gendered Racism: Legacies of Exclusion and Coercion

Chapter 7. Coercion and Institutional Racism in the Evolving Mental Health System: Social Workers as both the Problem and the Solution

Chapter 8. From Denial to Disproportionality: History of White Supremacy, Structural Racism, and the Child Welfare System

Chapter 9. Institutional Racism in the Child Welfare System: A Social Justice Issue

Chapter 10. Mothers Who Receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: A Citizenship Accounting

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

Women of Color: Enduring and Confronting Racism within the Profession

Chapter 11. Calling Out Racism in Social Work: Why We Should and Why We Don't

Chapter 12. Everyday Whiteness and the Failure of the Private Life

Chapter 13. Becoming Anti-Racist Social Workers

Social Work Education: Combatting Racism in Practice and Theory

Chapter 14. The Black Woman's Tax

Chapter 15. Survival and Resistance in the Academy: A Dialogue with Women of Color Faculty

Chapter 16. Better Late than Never: The Transformation Power of Black Feminist Thought

Chapter 17. Keeping it 100: Innovative Ways to Combat Racism in Social Work Education

Calling Out Racism through Uprooting Whiteness

Chapter 18. Fifteen Years of Critical Race Theory in Social Work Education: What We've Learned

Chapter 19. Examining the Antiracism Contributions of Black Male Social Work Educators Across Generations

Chapter 20. Social Work's Blame Game: Blackness, Neoliberalism, and the Profession's Turn Away from Organizing

PART III: ENVISIONING AN ANTI-RACIST FUTURE: FROM PRACTICE TO POLICY

Preface to Part III: The Future We Wish To See Will Not Come Easily

Toward 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 Profession

Chapter 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 Framework

Chapter 29. Envisioning Anti-Racist Social Work Organizational Change: Amplifying the Grey Literature

Chapter 30. Toward a Historically Accountable Critical Whiteness Curriculum for Social Work

PART IV: STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING RACIAL JUSTICE IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION

Preface to Part IV: Implementing an Anti-Racism Approach to Social Work Education

Dismantling Anti-Racist Pedagogies in Social Work Education

Chapter 31. Riotous Research: A Critical Trauma Theory to Uplift the Language of Those Unheard--Black, Indigenous and Social Work Students of Color

Chapter 32. Advancing Culturally Disruptive Pedagogies to Dismantle Anti-Black Racism in the Generalist Social Work Curriculum

Envisioning a Future for Social Work: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Chapter 33. Taking a Look in the Mirror to See the Future: Equitable Creative Placemaking and Social Work

Chapter 34. Envisioning an Antiracist Profession: A Qualitative Content Analysis of the Literature to Aid Social Work's Quest Toward Racial Reckoning and Social Justice

Chapter 35. LatCrit and Social Work Epistemology--Dismantling Whiteness in Ways of Knowing

Whiteness and White Supremacy: Theory, Education, and Practice

Chapter 36. Imagining the End of Racism through Ending White Supremacy: Implications for Social Work Education and Practice

Chapter 37. Managing White Fragility: Teaching While Black

Chapter 38. Creating an Anti-Colonial Academic Space for Social Work Education

Anti-Racist, Anti-Oppressive Social Work Education and Practice

Chapter 39. Resisting Curriculum Violence and Developing Anti-Oppressive, Trauma-Informed, Culturally Sustaining Approaches for Social Work Education And Practice

Chapter 40. Remedying the Foundation of Social Work Education:
Towards an Actionable Anti-Racist Pedagogy

Afterword