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ERIC Number: EJ1403187
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0884-1233
EISSN: EISSN-1540-7349
"Why Don't We Learn about the Black Social Work Pioneers?" The Erasure of Black Social Workers' Histories and Contributions--Implications for Social Work Education
Betty L. Wilson; Brandi Anderson; Brittany Davis; Christian Gorchow; Julisa Tindall; Agnes Nzomene Kahouo Foda
Journal of Teaching in Social Work, v44 n1 p64-79 2024
While there is mounting research on the well-known white founders of social work, documentation of Black social work pioneers and their contributions is scarce -- in both social work education and the broader telling of the profession's history. Given the systemic exclusion of Black social workers in the dominant narrative of social work history, there is a critical need to understand how social work education perpetuates and centers whiteness in the teaching of historical and contemporary social work. This article uses Critical Race Theory to interrogate the role of racism and white supremacy in maintaining the Eurocentric hegemony undergirding the pedagogical and epistemological canons of social work. Moreover, the authors call for a radical shift from social work's white- centered discourse and curricula to an equitable praxis, centering Black social work pioneers and their contributions to the profession. Implications for decolonizing pedagogy and anti-racist practice in social work education are also discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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