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Social Work as a Product and Project of Whiteness, 1607–1900
ABSTRACT Whiteness is a distinctive feature of historical and contemporary social work. Consequently, histories of social work do not reflect this fact; for a defining quality of whiteness is that it does not readily identify or critique itself. In keeping with its mission of social justice and obligation of critical self-reflection, however, social work faces the imperative of reckoning with its own whiteness. For lack of acknowledgment of the whiteness that characterizes the profession, social work exhibits theoretical shortcomings and practical incongruences, and lapses into a misrepresentation of its own history that compromises the authenticity of its ostensible identity and mission. The present article begins with the settlement of the first Anglo-American colony and proceeds to the turn of the nineteenth century, mapping the symbiotic evolutions of whiteness and social work, which demonstrate social work to be, in many ways, a product and project of whiteness. This article utilizes historical and historiographical analysis to exemplify a model for constructing counter-narratives that subvert the normative boundaries of hegemonic whiteness that constrain traditional social work histories.
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.