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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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.
