Black Women's Liberatory Pedagogies

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Wringing Out the “Whitewash”

“…In this paper, we explore the use of historical (Carlton-LaNey, 1999) and contemporary frameworks created by Black social workers to disrupt white supremacy in social work education. Through our duoethnography we discuss how womanism (Maparyan, 2012;Phillips & McCaskill, 1995) and historical trauma frameworks (Brave Heart, 1998) as well as Black liberation pedagogy (King, 2017;Jennings & Lynn, 2005;Perlow et al, 2018) can support social work educators to deconstruct, antagonize, reconstruct, and re-center narratives of social problems. As Black cisgender women who are social work educators, we utilize the collective intellect of lived experiences, public scholarship, cultural history, and transdisciplinary knowledge to "wring out the whitewash" of the educational process that attempts to erase the contributions of Black and Brown lives.…”