Dual pandemics awaken urgent call to advance anti-racism education in social work: pedagogical illustrations

Murray-Lichtman, Andrea; Aldana, Adriana; Izaksonas, Elena; Williams, Tauchiana; Naseh, Mitra; Deepak, Anne C.; Rountree, Michele

doi:10.1080/15313204.2022.2070899

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“…One class activity illustrates how differential racialization can be applied to understand the effects of racism on communities of color across time and space. Working in groups, students examine how slavery, boarding schools for Indigenous children, the war on drugs and mass incarceration, and draconian immigration policies have been used to separate families over time, giving them a deeper understanding of U.S. history (Murray-Lichtman et al, 2022). We discuss how these racially discriminatory policies and practices often result in social issues of concern to social workers, such as intergenerational trauma and mental health disparities.…”

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“…While more attentive to the structural nature of inequality, the anti-oppression pedagogical approach in social work education has often minimized the centrality of racism in structuring inequality (Graham & Schiele, 2010). The longstanding anti-racism contributions of scholars of color to pedagogy, research, and practice have often been ignored or pushed to the margins in social work (Aldana & Vazquez, 2020;Murray-Lichtman et al, 2022). Accordingly, the current state of mainstream social work education has limited social workers' ability to engage in anti-racist practices.…”

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Centering Anti-Racism in Social Work Education: Integration of Critical Race Theory Across an MSW Curriculum

Aldana

Vazquez²,

Hosea³

2023

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Ranging from a multicultural approach to models of cultural sensitivity and cultural competency, social work education has historically avoided challenging the power of racism in shaping inequity in the United States. We argue that integrating critical race theory (CRT) in social work education decenters whiteness, counters color-evasive racism in education, and centers anti-racist ideas and practices. CRT provides social work educators with a framework that explicitly addresses race and racism while challenging social work students to self-reflect critically on their own experiences with privilege and oppression. Further, it enables social work students and practitioners to analyze race and other systems of oppression structurally. This manuscript offers an overview of how CRT is integrated across an MSW curriculum to better prepare social work students to engage in anti-racist social work practice. We describe specific examples of how CRT is infused into the curriculum in theory and practice courses. We conclude with an acknowledgment that CRT is not without limitations and call for more empirical research that assesses the effectiveness of CRT’s application to social work praxis.

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Centering Anti-Racism in Social Work Education: Integration of Critical Race Theory Across an MSW Curriculum

Aldana

Vazquez²,

Hosea³

2023

csw

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“…As outlined in the preceding discussion, from social work practice to service delivery, the profession has perpetuated harm against BIPOC (Dettlaff et al, 2020;Kolivoski et al, 2014;Murray-Lichtman et al, 2022;Murray-Lichtman & Elkassem, 2021;Santiago & Ivery, 2020). Racism, white supremacy, and coloniality within the profession sets the stage for social work practice that also denies the impact of racism on BIPOC service consumers through race-neutral policies that devastate communities (Dettlaff et al, 2020) and the marginalization of voices that speak against such practices (Bryant & Kolivoski, 2021).…”

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Mapping an Integrative Critical Race and Anti-Colonial Theoretical Framework in Social Work Practice

Elkassem

Murray-Lichtman²

2022

ASW

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The social inequities highlighted by the racial injustice protests of 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic challenge the social work profession to respond to the past and present social consequences that disproportionately impact Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). We argue that social work's commitment to social justice has not taken up an explicit anti-racism mission to eradicate white supremacy, racism, and coloniality in the profession. We further argue that although social service agencies often include a commitment to cultural competence/humility, practices continue to be rooted in color-blind approaches to service and treatment. Social work's failure to address racism poses challenges for those from racialized backgrounds experiencing psychological distress due to racism and other inequities. Building upon the theoretical foundations of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Anti-Colonialism, we provide a conceptual framework for practice and service delivery with BIPOC clients through social work praxis. This conceptual framework offers three overarching directives that include integrated critical race and anti-colonial theoretical concepts for social work practice and service delivery. We discuss the implications for application of this conceptual framework in practice and service delivery.

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Teaching Indigenous Social Work in Mainstream Social Work Education in Taiwan

Hsieh,

Lin,

Teyra

2023

Springer Series in International Social Work

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Dual pandemics awaken urgent call to advance anti-racism education in social work: pedagogical illustrations

Cited by 13 publications

References 26 publications

Centering Anti-Racism in Social Work Education: Integration of Critical Race Theory Across an MSW Curriculum

Centering Anti-Racism in Social Work Education: Integration of Critical Race Theory Across an MSW Curriculum

Mapping an Integrative Critical Race and Anti-Colonial Theoretical Framework in Social Work Practice

Teaching Indigenous Social Work in Mainstream Social Work Education in Taiwan

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