Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice

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