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We are excited to share this special edition of Advances in Social Work with you. Each set of articles offers much for us to reflect and act upon moving forward. There is a reckoning happening and we are thrilled that this special edition is part of that reckoning.
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Kneading, Needing, and Eating Black Bodies: The History of Social Work and Its Concern for Black Citizenship in the United States, Fabienne Snowden, Willie Tolliver, Amanda McPherson
Political Advocacy Without a Choice: Highlighting African American Political Social Workers, Donisha Shepherd, Suzanne Pritzker
Honoring Our Ancestors: Using Reconciliatory Pedagogy to Dismantle White Supremacy, Jennifer McCleary, Estelle Simard
The Whitewashing of Social Work History: How Dismantling Racism in Social Work Education Begins With an Equitable History of the Profession, Kelechi C. Wright, Becci A. Akkin, Kortney Angela Carr
Gray Clouds Over Ivory Towers: Struggles Facing Black, First Generation Social Work Research Doctoral Students, Dashawna J. Fussell-Ware
Interrupting White Supremacy in Field Education: Experiences of Microaggressions in Placement Settings, Anita Gooding, Gita R. Mehrotra
The Cost of Being Black in Social Work Practicum, Nia Johnson, Paul Archibald, Anthony Estreet, Amanda Morgan
Experiences With Imposter Syndrome and Authenticity at Research-Intensive Schools of Social Work: A Case Study on Black Female Faculty, LaShawnda N. Fields, Renee M. Cunningham-Williams
Dismantling Privilege and White Supremacy in Social Work Education, Taniko King-Jordan, Karina Gil
How Racism Against BIPOC Women Faculty Operates in Social Work Academia, Sameena Azhar, Kendra P. DeLoach McCutcheon
Toward a Historically Accountable Critical Whiteness Curriculum for Social Work, Joshua R. Gregory
Decentering Whiteness in Social Work Curriculum: An Autoethnographic Reflection on a Racial Justice Practice Course, Stephanie Odera, M. Alex Wagaman, Ashley Staton, Aaron Kemmerer
“Theory’s cool, but theory with no practice ain’t shit…”: Critical Theories and Frameworks to Dismantle Racism in Social Work Education and Practice, Dale Dagar Maglalang, Smitha Rao
An Experiential Model for Cultivating Cultural Humility and Embodying Antiracist Action in and Outside the Social Work Classroom, Kerri Fisher
The Intrepid Elective: Transforming Potential for Consciousness to Action in and With Social Work Education, Alexis Jemal, Jenna Frasier
Interracial Team Teaching in Social Work Education: A Pedagogical Approach to Dismantling White Supremacy, Luis O. Curiel
Using a Transdiagnostic Perspective to Disrupt White Supremacist Applications of the DSM, Michael R. Riquino, Van L. Nguyen, Sarah E. Reese, Jen Molloy
Assessing Antiracism as a Learning Outcome in Social Work Education: A Systematic Review, Phillipe Copeland, Abigail Ross
“Not the Time For Kumbaya”: An Exploratory Study of Race-Based Caucusing in the Social Work Classroom, Anjali Fulambarker Buehler, Christine Rogerson, Melinda Gushwa
De-Centering Whiteness Through Revisualizing Theory in Social Work Education, Practice, and Scholarship, Chandra Crudup, Chris Fike, Claire McLoone
Deepening the Learning: Intersectional Experiential Activities to Address White Supremacy, Elizabeth King Keenan, Shuei Kozu, Hunter Mayhew, Evelyn Saiter-Meyers, Caliyah Meggett, Paige Reynolds
We Are What We Read: Assessing Bias in the Implicit Curriculum of a Social Work Program, Emily Tillotson, Susan Smith, Cheris Brewer Current
The Politics of Resistance From Within: Dismantling White Supremacy in Social Work Classrooms, Patrina Duhaney, Yahya El-Lahib
Next Wave of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Survivors: Black Women Resisters in Academia, Selena T. Rodgers
Disrupting the Pedagogy of Hypocrisy: How Do We Move Beyond Teaching Students How to Survive White Supremacy?, Erin Hipple, Lauren E. Reid, Shanna Williams, Judelysse Gomez, Clare Peyton, Jack Wolcott
The Stories We Tell: Examining the Persistence and Impacts of Normative-Whiteness and White Supremacy Within Social Work Education, Danté Bryant, Karen M. Kolivoski
Faculty as a Barrier to Dismantling Racism in Social Work Education, Ebony N. Perez
Social Work Educators as White Allies? An Integrative Literature Review, Michael Massey, Kynai Johnson
Wrestling the Elephant: Teaching as a Racialized Body in the Social Work Classroom, Carolyn Mak, Mandeep Kaur Mucina, Renée Nichole Ferguson
Wringing Out the “Whitewash”: Confronting the Hegemonic Epistemologies of Social Work Canons (Disrupting the Reproduction of White Normative), Anna Ortega-Williams, Denise McLane-Davison
Abolishing Whiteness: Preparing MSW Social Work Students for Anti-Racist Practice, Michele D. Hanna, Heather Arnold-Renicker, Barbara Garza
Confronting Historical White Supremacy in Social Work Education and Practice: A Way Forward, Zoila Del-Villar
Anti-Racism Working Group: Exploring the Results of an Interdisciplinary Partnership at a Large Public University, Anaïs Bailly, Benjamin P. Brumley, Megan A. Mraz, Benjamin S. Morgan, Gwenelle Styles O’Neal, Brie Radis, Susan R. Wysor Nguema, Colleen Keeler, Mia Ocean, Erin N. Spencer
Moving From Multiculturalism to Critical Race Theory Within a School of Social Work: Dismantling White Supremacy as an Organizing Strategy, Saanà A. Polk, Nicole Vazquez, Mimi E. Kim, Yolanda R. Green
Finding Shelter in the Storm: Undoing Racism in a Predominantly White School of Social Work, Ann T. Riley, Kirby Bewley, Renea L. Butler-King, Lisa G. Byers, Christina R. Miller, Jennifer E. Dell, Charlotte J. Kendrick
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Lessons Learned Dismantling White Supremacy in a School of Social Work, Rocío Calvo, Samuel Bradley
Social Work Education in the Shadow of Confederate Statues and the Specter of White Supremacy, Travis Albritton, Charity S. Watkins, Allison De Marco, JP Przewoznik, Andrew Heil
Uprooting (Our) Whiteness, William R. Frey, Noelia Mann, Alex Boling, Parker Jordan, Karma N. Lowe, Susan S. Witte
Is There A Place For Us? Social Workers of Color As Outside Agitators Within the Profession, Michael Rangel
Social Work in the Shadow of Death: Divesting From Anti-Blackness and Social Control, Rae Rosario Stevenson, Joan M. Blakey
The Obligation of White Women: Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in Social Work Education, Sara Plummer, Jandel Crutchfield, Desiree Stepteau-Watson
‘The Mirage of Action’: Exploring the Social Work Professions’ Perpetuation of White Supremacy Through ‘Well-Intentioned’ Actions, Jemel P. Aguilar, Elisabeth Counselman-Carpenter
The Woke Disrupter: A Call to Action, Jessica Donohue-Dioh, Jacqueline Wilson, Stephani-Nicole Leota