Sex Trafficking of Black Girls: A Critical Race Theory Approach to Practice

IF 2.3 Q1 SOCIAL WORK
Monique Constance-Huggins, Shaneé Moore, ZaDonna M. Slay
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ABSTRACT Child sex trafficking is a troubling, yet hidden, social problem in the United States. Black girls are particularly vulnerable given the intersection of their race and gender as they navigate biological, psychological, and social vulnerabilities. Yet, little light is shed on their experiences, and consequently, strategies to practice with them are lacking. To resist the universal focus on sex trafficking, and to develop targeted approaches to address marginalized groups, such as Black girls, it is imperative to embrace critical, non-exclusionary, and non-oppressive perspectives. This paper introduces critical race theory (CRT) and employs some of its tenets to explain the oppression that Black girls face. Finally, it provides practice strategies, grounded in CRT, to meet the unique challenges of Black girls thereby advancing social work practice in an increasingly racialized context.
黑人女孩的性交易:一种批判种族理论的实践方法
在美国,儿童性交易是一个令人不安而又隐蔽的社会问题。考虑到黑人女孩的种族和性别的交集,她们在生理、心理和社会脆弱性方面尤为脆弱。然而,对他们的经验知之甚少,因此,缺乏与他们一起练习的策略。为了抵制对性交易的普遍关注,并制定有针对性的方法来解决黑人女孩等边缘化群体的问题,必须接受批判性、非排斥性和非压迫性的观点。本文介绍了批判种族理论(CRT),并运用它的一些原则来解释黑人女孩所面临的压迫。最后,它提供了实践策略,以CRT为基础,以满足黑人女孩的独特挑战,从而在日益种族化的背景下推进社会工作实践。
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期刊介绍: The only journal of its kind in the United States, the Journal of Progressive Human Services covers political, social, personal, and professional problems in human services from a progressive perspective. The journal stimulates debate about major social issues and contributes to the development of the analytical tools needed for building a caring society based on equality and justice. The journal"s contributors examine oppressed and vulnerable groups, struggles by workers and clients on the job and in the community, dilemmas of practice in conservative contexts, and strategies for ending racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, and discrimination of persons who are disabled and psychologically distressed.
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