Social work must return to its core mission: standing against all forms of hate, advocating for all communities experiencing ...

Menakem said that social workers have a responsibility to break the yoke of racism and oppression. “Social workers have to create room for communities to reclaim and reestablish their own ways of ...

This can then lead to considering other forms of knowledge that open the door to social work practice relevant for an increasingly diverse world. The PCF specifies diversity and requires social ...

1. Discuss how systems of power, privilege and oppression function historically and currently in the U.S. 2. Understand of the critical role that social movements play in creating structural change. 3 ...

A Washington University in St. Louis’ medical school lecturer told students that if anyone tried to "fight or debate" her on "systemic oppression," she would would shut it down.

Historically, white workers have been exploited, sometimes quite ruthlessly, but in the United States they have never faced anything like the political, legal, and social oppression of black workers.

“Social workers have to create room for communities to reclaim and reestablish their own ways of healing,” says Resmaa Menakem, a social worker and trauma specialist. How social workers can break the ...