Achieving Racial Equity Through Social Work: Introduction to Our New Column
We represent an alliance of thousands of antiracist social workers in the Northeast United States, connected to a national effort to undo structural racism. Why this column? Why is achieving racial...
View ArticleAchieving Racial Equity Through Social Work: Undoing Racism
Racial equity work requires recognizing systemic oppression and changing the way systems function. To do this, we must be guided by a set of principles that help us identify barriers and pitfalls, and...
View ArticleAchieving Racial Equity Through Social Work: Learning From History
The second principle identified by the People's Institute is Learning from History. Race history in America is filled with pain and confusion. It is impossible to understand this history without...
View ArticleAchieving Racial Equity Through Social Work: Sharing Culture
As you learn to see subtle, usually unintentional,manifestations of racial inequity in your organization, the next steps you can take to create change become clearer.
View ArticleAchieving Racial Equity Through Social Work: Developing Leadership &...
Developing leadership that moves an organization toward antiracist multicultural practice requires understanding the dominant culture, redefining concepts of leadership to include diverse perspectives,...
View ArticleAchieving Racial Equity Through Social Work: Networking To Build a Network...
In this article, we focus on networking as crucial to finding and developing partners who can join together and mobilize for change in regard to achieving racial equity.
View ArticleAchieving Racial Equity Through Social Work: Gatekeeping and Manifestations...
Previously, we explored the Undoing Racism® principle of analyzing power (see http://www.pisab.org/our-principles). Now, we examine our roles as gatekeepers and our responsibility to identify and...
View ArticleAchieving Racial Equity Through Social Work: Internalized Racial Oppression
Internalized racial oppression is a multigenerational process of accepting social messaging about one’s standing in society and one’s comparative value.
View ArticleDeep Denial: Interview With David Billings on His New Book's Relevance to...
Deep Denial documents through history and personal accounts the 400-year racialization of the United States and how people of European descent came to be called “white.” Social worker Sandy Bernabei...
View ArticleAchieving Racial Equity Through Social Work: Taking Action
The final installment of the Achieving Racial Equity Through Social Work series focuses on taking action.
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