The Black power movement and American social work /
The Black Power movement has often been portrayed in history and popular culture as the quintessential 'bad boy' of modern black movement-making in America. Yet this impression misses the full extent of Black Power's contributions to U.S. society, especially in regard to black profess...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | EBL-Schweitzer
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: race, resistance, and the civil sphere
- Re-envisioning the Black power movement
- The rise of the Black power professional
- "A nice social tea party": the rocky relationship between social work and Black liberation
- "We stand before you, not as a separatist body": the techni-culture movement to gain voice in the National Federation of Settlements
- "We'll build our own thing": the exit strategy of the National Association of Black Social Workers
- Exit and voice in intra-organizational social movements
- Conclusion: institutionalizing black power