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Naming White Supremacy in the Social Work Curriculum

Naming White Supremacy in the Social Work Curriculum In Brief Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 2019, Vol. 34(3) 393-398 Naming White Supremacy ª The Author(s) 2019 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions in the Social Work Curriculum DOI: 10.1177/0886109919837918 journals.sagepub.com/home/aff Elizabeth Beck Keywords criminal justice, curriculum, macro, postcolonial theory, race and ethnicity, research categories, social justice, social work, social work practice On April 27, 2018, in Montgomery, AL, it became clear to me that I needed to sharpen my view of racism. The day before, along with several thousand people, I had attended a summit hosted by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and their founding director, Bryan Stevenson. The summit included national leaders who fight in the same areas as EJI—to end mass incarceration, secure legal reforms, provide legal representation to those who would go without, and do something that sounds more nebulous: “change the narrative about race.” More than a conference, the summit was a celebration of the opening of the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the victims of racial terror, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and its companion, The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. By the end of the day on April 27, I knew that I needed to change how http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia SAGE

Naming White Supremacy in the Social Work Curriculum

Beck, Elizabeth
Affilia , Volume 34 (3): 6 – Aug 1, 2019
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In Brief Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 2019, Vol. 34(3) 393-398 Naming White Supremacy ª The Author(s) 2019 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions in the Social Work Curriculum DOI: 10.1177/0886109919837918 journals.sagepub.com/home/aff Elizabeth Beck Keywords criminal justice, curriculum, macro, postcolonial theory, race and ethnicity, research categories, social justice, social work, social work practice On April 27, 2018, in Montgomery, AL, it became clear to me that I needed to sharpen my view of racism. The day before, along with several thousand people, I had attended a summit hosted by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and their founding director, Bryan Stevenson. The summit included national leaders who fight in the same areas as EJI—to end mass incarceration, secure legal reforms, provide legal representation to those who would go without, and do something that sounds more nebulous: “change the narrative about race.” More than a conference, the summit was a celebration of the opening of the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the victims of racial terror, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and its companion, The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. By the end of the day on April 27, I knew that I needed to change how

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