WHEN TWO PANDEMICS COLLIDE: RACISM, COVID-19 AND THE ASSOCIATION OF BLACK SOCIAL WORKERS EMERGENCY RESPONSE

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Wanda Thomas Bernard
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Black Social Workers

Thomas, Jesse O.

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilma Peebles-Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Urban League ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Black Social Workers ◽  
Atlanta University ◽  
School Of Social Work

Jesse O. Thomas (1883–1972) was one of the founders of the Atlanta University School of Social Work. As Urban League field secretary for the southern states he brought to attention the shortage of trained black social workers.

scholarly journals Black social workers: Identity, racism, invisibility/hypervisibility at work

2021 ◽  
pp. 146801732110081
Author(s):  
Chijioke Obasi
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
The North ◽  
Work Spaces ◽  
Black Social Workers

Summary This article provides a reflexive account of qualitative research with Black female social workers in the North of England. It uses ‘Africanist Sista-hood in Britain’ as the theoretical framework guiding the research. The data are gathered from six semi-structured interviews and two focus groups. Data were analysed via thematic analysis. Participant data are used to discuss issues of identity, race and racism as they contribute to positions of visibility, invisibility and hypervisibility within the social work spaces discussed. The article challenges Western forms of knowledge production as the dominant discourse in social work research, practice, education and training and links this to wider issues of power, privilege and suppression of marginalised voices. Findings The findings section reveals examples of racism, marginality, invisibility and hypervisibility as part of the lived experiences of Black female social workers in the study. It includes discussions of ‘collective strategic projection’ as a consequence of the development of the ‘race taboo’ often present in these work environments. Applications The article calls for social work educators, practitioners and the wider academic field to do more to centralise anti-racist approaches in an attempt to challenge racism in social work.

Building Alliances

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix L. Armfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Migrant Population ◽  
Settlement Houses ◽  
Urban League ◽  
The Social ◽  
Black Social Workers ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

This chapter traces the history of the National Urban League with a specific focus on Eugene Kinckle Jones's leadership. It covers the decade of the 1920s and the many issues that Jones and his contemporaries confronted, as social workers faced the dual challenge of adjusting their tactics to meet the growing needs of a black migrant population and establishing themselves as professionals. Ultimately, the duties of black social workers and the aims of the NUL included evaluating and reviewing settlement houses, in addition to other specific concerns of migrating blacks. Here, Jones made headway for the social-work movement by establishing professional training for black social workers, tackling the problem of housing to cope with the influx of black migrants from the South—among many other efforts on behalf of black social workers, which eventually made him one of the prominent social workers in America..

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