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In this article, the authors, who are now tenure-track or tenured professors at Canadian universities, demonstrate the ways in which graduate student anti-racist activisms are a central avenue for confronting Whiteness and institutional racism.
- Canadian Social Work Review / Revue Canadienne De Service Social
The Canadian Association for Social Work...
- Canadian Social Work Review / Revue Canadienne De Service Social
Dec 20, 2022 · Research demonstrates that social work practitioners and educators often fail to recognize (1) how structural oppression creates racial inequities and (2) how social workers maintain and reproduce hegemonic power structures. Critical whiteness theory (CWT) seeks to reveal the invisible role of whiteness in constructing racial inequities.
Jan 12, 2023 · Through engagement with critical Whiteness theory, social workers can gain understanding of the social world and impact of social injustices. By doing so, they can transform society and emancipate those who are oppressed (Gair et al. 2015).
- hyacinth.udah@jcu.edu.au
Nov 27, 2019 · By engaging in Whiteness research, counseling psychologists can generate theoretical models and empirical evidence that propel our understanding of Whiteness forward in ways that facilitate growth and sociopolitical change at both individual and institutional levels.
- R. C. Schooley, Debbiesiu L. Lee, Lisa B. Spanierman
- 2019
Jan 6, 2021 · The continued dominance and perpetuation of white supremacy has created the need for the profession of social work to teach white students how to identity and to understand how a culture of ‘whiteness’ influences their interactions in the classroom and beyond.
- Justin Evan Lerner
- 2021
In this paper, two authors—one Indigenous and one racialized settler—discuss building bridges between mainstream social work and Indigenous-centred social work by sharing their reflexive lived experiences (personal and professional) of decentring Whiteness, engaging in decolonization, and deploying wholistic ways of teaching and being at a ...
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Jul 13, 2015 · Five themes emerged: the role of engaging in continuous self-awareness in clinical practice; the complexity of using intersectionality to inform our work; the necessity of addressing White...
