Week I- Feb 4: Slow transition back
Read Parts I and II of Caste
Week II- Feb 11: Liberation Health & Casteism
Large Practice Lab group gathering for the first hour of class (2pm)
- Post answers to reflection prompts in “Posts” or Blackboard Discussion Board.
Week III- Feb 18: Ethical Decision-Making
Liberation Health and Just Practice Frameworks
Freud, S. & Krug, S. (2002). Beyond the code of ethics, Part I: Complexities of ethical decision making in social work practice. Families in Society, 83(5/6), 474-482.
La Roche, M.J., Lowy, S.L., Rivera, C.E. (2017). Ten psychotherapeutic considerations to assist young undocumented Latinx. Latina/o Psychology Today, 4(2), 28-31.
McAuliffe, D. & Chenoweth, L. (2008). Leave no stone unturned: The inclusive model of ethical decision-making. Ethics and Social Welfare, 2(1), 38-49.
Gottlieb, C. (2018). The lessons of mass incarceration for child welfare
Week IV- Feb 25: Community & Group Work Processes
Liberation Health and Just Practice Frameworks
Belkin-Martinez, D (2014). Liberation health in the hospital. In D. Belkin-Martinez & A. Fleck-Henderson (eds) Social justice in clinical practice: A liberation health framework for social work (pp. 168-173) New York: Routledge.
hooks, bell (2006). Love as the practice of freedom in Outlaw culture. New York & London: Routledge Press. (pdf)
Kant, J.D. (2015). Toward a socially just social work practice: The liberation health model. Critical and Radical Social Work, 3(2), 309-319
The Eight Pillars of Caste
Read Part III in Caste
Week V- March 4: Intersectionality
Jackson, J. (2020). The doctor is out-reflections on being black, queer physician. JAMA Pediatrics, 10. (pdf)
Almeida, R.V. et al. (2019). Coloniality and Intersectionality in social work education and practice, Journal of Progressive Human Services, 30(2) 148-164, DOI:10.1080/10428232.2019.1574195
Gunn, A.J., Sacks, T.K, & Jemal, A. (2018). ‘‘That’s not me anymore’’: Resistance strategies for managing intersectional stigmas for women with substance use and incarceration histories. Qualitative Social Work, 17(4), 490-508.
Read Part IV in Caste (pp 167-207)
Week VI- March 11: Racism (white supremacy)
Read Part IV in Caste (pp 208-257)
Roberts, C. (2016). An interview with Karen Branan. Voices: Journal of The American Academy of Psychotherapists 52(3), 70-78.
Roberts, C. (2016). Descended from enslavers. Exploring the legacy. Voices: Journal of The American Academy of Psychotherapists, 52(3), 65-69
Philips, N.L., Adams, G. & Salter, P.S.S. (2015). Beyond adaptation: Decolonizing approaches to coping with oppression. Journal of Social and Political Psychology 3(1), 365-387
Miller, E.T. (2018). Race, class, patriotism and religion in early childhood: The formation of Whiteness. In S.K. McManimom, Z.A. Casey & C. Berchini (eds), Whiteness at the table (pp.1-19), New York: Lexington Press.
Week VII- March 18: Classism (racial-settler capitalism)
Read Part V of Caste
Kurwa, R. (2019). Building the digitally gated community: The case of Nextdoor. Surveillance & Society, 17 (1/2): 111-117, (pdf)
Week VIII- March 25: Religious Oppression (Christian hegemony)
Read Part VI of Caste
Sooliman, Q. (2019). Afrophobia, Islamophobia and white supremacy, Join the dots. The Daily Vox. https://www.thedailyvox.co.za/afrophobia-islamophobia-white-supremacy-join-the-dots/
Ward, Eric (2017). Skin in the game: How antisemitism animates white nationalism. Political Research Associates (pdf)
Spring break (no class April 1st)
Week IX- April 8: Sexism (patriarchy)
Read Part VII in Caste
Greensmith, H. (2020). A room of their own: How anti-Trans feminists are complicit in Christian right anti-trans advocacy https://www.politicalresearch.org/2020/07/14/room-their-own
Larsen, C. (2019). #MeToo in South Korea: A comparative analysis of feminist perspectives in a cultural context. International Journal of Foreign Studies 11(2): 39-59. (pdf)
Week X- April 15: Heterosexism (heteronormativity)
The Trevor Project (2020). National survey on LBGTQ youth mental health 2020
Dole, T. (2020). Supporting black LGBTQ youth and mental health. The Trevor Project.
Powell, K., Terry, R. & Chen, S. (2020). How LGBTQ+ scientist would like to be included and welcomed in STEM workplaces. Nature, 586(7831), 813-816.
Week XI- April 22: Transgender Oppression (cisnormativity)
Malpas, J. & Glaeser, E. (2017). Transgender Couples and Families. In J. Lebow, A. Chambers & D. Breunlin (eds). Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy (pp.1-6) New York, Springer.
Tanenbaum, T. (2020). Publishers: Let transgender scholars correct their names. Nature, 583(7817): 493.
The Trevor Project (n.d.). A guide to being an ally to transgender and nonbinary youth.
Week XII- April 29: Ableism
Harriet Tubman Collective (2020). Disability solidarity: Completing the “vision for black lives”. In A. Wong (Ed.) Disability visibility: First-person stories from the twenty-first century. New York: Vintage Books (236-242). (pdf)
smith, s. e. (2020). The beauty of spaces created for and by disabled people. In A. Wong (Ed.) Disability visibility: First-person stories from the twenty-first century. New York: Vintage Books (270-275. (pdf)
Assignment #1 due-“Decolonizing Social Work Practice Knowledge – Contribution”
Week XIII- May 6: Ageism/Adultism
Rubin, D.I & Kazanjian, C.J. (2018). Finding place in displacement: Latinx youth and schooling along the borderlands. Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis 7(1), 25-37.
Interboro (2017b). Youth curfew. In T. Armbrost, D. D’Oca & G. Theodore (with R. Gold) (Eds), The arsenal of exclusion an inclusion. New York: Actar Publishers, 329-331. (pdf)
Read, K. (2017) Ageism is everywhere: Here’s what we can do about it. The Star Tribune.
Radical Age Movement. Youthful Compliments: Ageist wolves in sheep’s clothing
Week XIV- May 13: Year End Review
Final Assignment Due
Week XV- May 20: Large Group and Transitioning
