This textbook establishes Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a central framework for social work education and praxis. Addressing and ultimately moving beyond models of cultural competence and diversity, it offers a comprehensive framework for integrating CRT into pedagogy, research, and practice. It introduces analytical tools to address issues such as systemic racism, the social construction of race, critiques of liberalism, interest convergence, intersectionality, and counternarratives. Chapters contributed by renowned social work researchers highlight how social work has been entangled with white supremacy, neoliberalism, and colonialism, while also presenting a road map for a change in the future. With case examples, narratives, and reflective questions, this book is designed for all levels of social work study, as well as for committed practitioners of anti-racism. Although grounded in the US context, global perspectives are included, making it relevant for international audiences facing systematic racism or colonial legacies.
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'This book uses Critical Race Theory (CRT) to analyze the ways that tactics have been used structurally to oppress persons of color, as well as the liberation strategies communities are using to transform themselves to counter this oppression. This book is a valuable primary source tool for those engaged in community-driven program development, offering 21st-century solutions to age-old problems.' Llewyn Cornelious, University of Georgia 'As one of the first edited collections to bring Critical Race Theory to the center of social work, this volume makes a compelling case for its integration across education, research, and practice. It equips scholars and practitioners with critical tools to examine structural inequality and to reimagine more just approaches to policy and practice.' Laura Abrams, UCLA 'With hopeful honesty, this text challenges us to accept how ubiquitous racism is in our thoughts, actions, policies, practices, and history. It offers a deeply personal guide to critical self-reflection, care, and ultimately change. No reader can be unchanged by this text.' Susan Ramsundarsingh, University of Victoria 'This book is a timely resource in the context of our current political climate and the social work profession's need for a more explicit praxis related to anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. The authors provide clear, concise, and actionable information for social work educators, researchers, and practitioners to enhance their own knowledge, awareness, and skills which benefits their students and/or clients.' Nathan Stephens, Illinois State University 'In twenty-two illuminating chapters, the authors and editors of this book provide a practical and process-oriented guide for everyone who has been wondering how to understand Critical Race Theory and integrate it into any part of their social work practice (including education and research). This is a brilliant offering that decenters Eurocentric epistemologies and addresses racial oppression and other societal injustices.' Akin Taiwo, King's University College at Western University 'Race, Power, and Practice: A Critical Race Framework for Social Work offers thoughtful insights into race and provokes important discourse on how it is constructed and embedded within social and political structures. The authors skillfully integrate CRT concepts with practical approaches to anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice. This text is a valuable resource for students, practitioners, and educators in the social work profession.' Samantha Campbell, McMaster University 'Race, Power, and Practice: A Critical Race Framework for Social Work by Professor Nakaoka et al. provides the critical lens that the social work profession has needed to examine its assumptions, decolonize its practices, and hold itself accountable to a future in which the immensity of human diversity and experience is boldly narrated, actively celebrated, and rife with liberation.' Sherry Warren, The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University
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A textbook by diverse subject experts, providing an overview of Critical Race Theory and its application to social work.
Foreword James Herbert Williams; Invited authors; Introduction: how we
start Susan Lares Nakaoka, Stacey Chimimba Ault, Larry Ortiz and Nicole
Vazquez; Part I. CRT and Social Work:
1. CRT in social work: a vision for
transformative resistance Susan Lares Nakaoka, Stacey Chimimba Ault, Larry
Ortiz and Nicole Vazquez; Part II. The Everydayness of Racism: The Social
Construction of White Supremacy as the Foundation of Social Work:
2.
Introduction to Part II Larry Ortiz;
3. Redemption road: imagining social
work's racial justice mission Ebony Nicole Perez;
4. Present but not
accounted for: navigating racism in social work practicums Stephanie
Lechuga-Peña, Debora Ortega, Nadia Saldaña-Spiegle and Michael R. Lechuga;
5.
Data justice or research injustice: everyday racism in social science
research Ashley Daftary, Debora Ortega, Jessica Rodriguez-Jenkins, Nadia
Saldaña Spiegle and Jennifer Lopez;
6. Dismantling colonial structures and
resisting racialization of indigenous peoples: a mandate for social workers
Hilary N. Weaver; Part III. Liberalism and Unequal Outcomes: Seeking
Liberation in Rigged Social Work Systems:
7. Introduction to Part III Nicole
Vazquez;
8. 'It's not just a video ': employing critical race theory to
examine TikTok videos Laurens G. Van Sluytman, Joy Kogah, Jemia McGriff,
Sudershan Shai and Pooja Sunar;
9. The need for education justice for Latinx
students Ester J. Calzada and Lalaine Sevillano;
10. 'Muéstrame Tus Papeles':
a LatCrit discourse for understanding the well-being of Latinas and their
resistance to anti-immigration politics Mónica Gutiérrez and David Becerra;
11. Beyond liberalism: a race-conscious framework for social work Jason
Anthony. Plummer; Part IV. Intersectionality: Opportunities for a Dynamic
Social Work:
12. Introduction to Part IV Susan Lares Nakaoka;
13.
Intersectional organizing for immigrant justice: towards an inclusive
immigrant movement Carlos Amador;
14. Experiencing academia at the
intersection of race, gender, and nationality Monique Constance-Huggins;
15.
Queer AZN CRT: radical possibilities for social work Antonia R. G. Alvarez,
Gita R. Mehrotra, Sameenda Azhar, Anne Farina and Alma Trindad;
16. Meeting
at the intersection: understanding, navigating, and leveraging marginalized
practitioners' lived experiences through disability critical race and
disability justice lenses Robin Ennis and Jacoba Rock; Part V. Reflexivity,
Positionality, and the Social Worker: Implications for Liberatory Practice
and Research:
17. Introduction to Part V Stacey Chimimba Ault;
18. Critical
race praxis: introducing a process-oriented guide to the integration of
critical race theory in social work practice Adriana Aldana and Jeff Capps;
19. Biracial identities: navigating white supremacy, anti-blackness, and
colorism to negotiate identity Wendy Ashley;
20. Indigeneity, indigenization,
and critical race theory: intersections of resistance Peter Mataira and Paula
T. Morelli;
21. Centering rest in our critical social [ justice] work praxis
Stacey Chimimba Ault, Causha Spellman-Timmons and Jacke Humphrey-Straub; Part
VI. Conclusion: Where We Stand:
22. Conclusion Susan Lares Nakaoka, Stacey
Chimimba Ault, Larry Ortiz and Nicole Vazquez.
Susan Lares Nakaoka, Associate Director of the Master of Social Welfare Program at UCLA, is a co-founder of the Critical Race Scholars in Social Work network. For over 20 years, her teaching, research, and writing has focused on Asian American and Pacific Islander community development, critical race pedagogy, and social justice. As a third-generation Japanese American/Chicana, her work and values are shaped by her family's incarceration experience during World War II. Stacey Chimimba Ault (she, her, dr), Professor Emerita of Social Work at California State University, Sacramento, is Founder/CEO of the Race and Gender Equity (RAGE) Project. As a first-generation mother-scholar, her lived expertise of exploitation, poverty, school push out and the prison industrial complex, grounds her work. Dr. Ault's scholarship and praxis center Black youth, participatory action research, critical post traumatic growth, and Restful Leadership as a liberatory, healing-centered approach to social change. Larry Ortiz, a social work educator, has written extensively about CRT in social work and led the development of a fully integrated CRT MSW curriculum. Throughout his forty-year career he has taught BSW, MSW, DSW, and Ph.D., students preparing critical thinkers for anti-racist culturally grounded social work practice. Nicole Vazquez, MSW, MPP, is a queer Afro-Latinx cisgender woman. She has over twenty-five years' experience in the academic, public and nonprofit sectors, and is co-founder and co-director of Critical Race Scholars in Social Work. As Amor Adelante CEO, Nicole centers love in all of her work towards racial justice.
