Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice
Reckoning With Our History, Interrogating our Present, Reimagining our Future
Published on 18. December 2023
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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.
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.
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Reckoning With Our History, Interrogating our Present, Reimagining our Future
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Reckoning With Our History, Interrogating our Present, Reimagining our Future
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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.
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.
Content
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
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