Tracing absent critiques: racism, white supremacy, and anti-Asianism in social work’s discourses of immigration
The histories of immigration and social work are inextricably entangled. Immigrant enclaves in urban slums were living laboratories for the development of scientific philanthropy. Social work’s attention, however, did not encompass all immigrants. The focus of its developmental years was limited to...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2023
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Social work, white supremacy, and racial justice
Año: 2023, Páginas: 91-109 |
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| Sumario: | The histories of immigration and social work are inextricably entangled. Immigrant enclaves in urban slums were living laboratories for the development of scientific philanthropy. Social work’s attention, however, did not encompass all immigrants. The focus of its developmental years was limited to White immigrants. Social work’s complicity in the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was the culmination of a long history of the field’s complicity in the racist exclusion of Asian Americans. Identification of the profession’s silences and inactions is as necessary as the study of what it did and what it said. The aporias and elusions in the discourse were never random but defined by White supremacist ideology. Racism was a central rather than an accidental factor in the development of social work. |
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| Notas: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 105-109 |
| ISBN: | 9780197641422 |