Still We Resist: Reflections on Our Tenure as Editors-in-Chief

Park, Yoosun; Bhuyan, Rupaleem; Wahab, Shagufta

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“…The legacy of leadership by the editors-in-chief, the editorial board, the consulting editors, our many authors, and, not least, our global readership serves as scaffolding for feminist (re)building, revisioning, and political engagement so necessary as we attempt to emerge and recover from the pandemic, regroup from continual assaults on basic human rights, and address ongoing structural racism and its intersections with renewed energy and urgency. As they reminded us in their final editorial, “If social work’s recent awakening to structural oppression is to be taken seriously, this structural/institutional/systemic barrier to doing research that challenges the center should be contested; the link between structural inequality and epistemological dominance must be recognized and addressed.” (Park et al, 2020, p. 447)…”

Section: Strengthening a Critical Feminist Politics Of Resistance Andmentioning

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Pandemics, Protests, and Feminist Politics of Resistance

Kim

Zelnick

Goodkind

2021

Affilia

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I am going to join all the ones I left at the shore. I am going home soon. I am going wherever I want to go, wherever the hell I want, somewhere, uncertain. I am going forward. I am going where you are going if where you are going is free. -Beltrán (2019, p. 148) In These Dangerous TimesFour years ago, February 2017, the then incoming editor-in-chief team, Drs. Rupaleem Bhuyan, Yoosun Park, and Stephanie Wahab, reflected that their initial enthusiasm to lead Affilia forward into its next chapter had been tempered by the shocking election of Donald Trump. Anticipating what it would mean to foster "feminism in these dangerous times," they identified their mission thus:As social work anticipates a Trump agenda-part of a world-wide resurgence of white supremacist antidemocratic neoliberal agendas that disenfranchise so many-we must refuse further cooptation by state systems that perpetuate violence and oppression. We invite you to join us in our effort-to rethink, to reexamine, to challenge, and decenter, and thus reshape the discourses of social work in these dangerous times. (Park et al., 2017, p. 9)

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Pandemics, Protests, and Feminist Politics of Resistance

Kim

Zelnick

Goodkind

2021

Affilia

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“…At Affilia , we continue to resist (Park et al, 2020). We recognize that women and people of color, and especially women and non-binary people of color, have long experienced greater surveillance and censorship, even within the academy (Vakalahi & Starks, 2010).…”

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“…At Affilia , we have been in the crosshairs of the reactionary backlash to critical and progressive ideas before. In 2018, conservative activists targeted Affilia and other feminist and anti-racist journals in a hoax for which they fabricated data and manuscripts to bait journals into publishing what they would surely now call “woke” articles (Park et al, 2020). Using rhetoric focused on protecting academic freedom, such efforts undermine free inquiry and further fray trust in institutions.…”

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First They Came for Critical Race Theory …

Zelnick

Kim

Goodkind

2023

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The year 2022 came to a close with the sudden and swift removal of Professor Alan Dettlaff, a respected child welfare scholar and leader in the growing abolitionist movement, from his position as Dean of the University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work (Flaherty, 2023). While this was one of the more prominent dismissals in academic social work, it put in stark human terms the impact of a renewed and effective onslaught of political repression in education. An academic social work community quickly gathered over the holidays to support Dr. Dettlaff and forge a public response and call to action. Dr. Terri Friedline and Dean Beth Angell of the University of Michigan's School of Social Work (2023) hosted a national forum in early January 2023 called Social Work and Abolition in the New Year to add transparency to the University of Houston's dismissal of Dr. Dettlaff from his leadership position. The panelists, including two members of Affilia's editorial leadership team, stood in support of Dr. Dettlaff, denouncing alarming efforts to silence and root out critical frameworks and those who speak out against racism and other systems of oppression. Dr. Dettlaff's censure demonstrates that while lukewarm anti-racism might be tolerated or applauded, bold challenges to the institutions that uphold racism including policing, prisons, and the child welfare system-increasingly identified as the pillars of carceral social work-are not.Alan Dettlaff's removal, of course, is just one result of the ongoing evisceration of racial and gender justice advances that have been made since the civil right era. In the summer of 2020, the global protests against police murders of Black and Brown people raised widespread public demands to "defund the police" that, for some, extended to calls to abolish policing, prisons, and the punishing systems represented, in part, by social work. The backlash has been swift. Today, the daily postings of new state legislation and school board policies quashing even the mention of race or gender beyond the binary-followed by silencing, admonishments, dismissals, and even threats to life-have become shockingly commonplace. We are aware that many of us as writers and readers of Affilia have been directly impacted by these frightening trends.We write this editorial as a tribute to Alan Dettlaff and the many of us who continue to champion critical thinking, scholarship, teaching, policies, and practice-even in the face of such threats-and to those of us who may do so with increasing wariness and even retreat. This piece further serves as an acknowledgment of the soberness of these times and as a call for solidarity. As we use these pages to document the terror of this moment of backlash and attack, we echo the recent Social Welfare History Group bibliography, "Red Scares, Political Repression, and Social Work: Why Now?" (Abramovitz et al., 2023) by asking if these current trends constitute a modern-day red scare. This timely bibliography traces the evolution of red scares in the United States from t...

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Where’s the BIPOC Blueprint for Healthy Youth Development? The Role of Scientific Omissions in Our Struggle for Science Translation and Racial Equity in the United States

Shapiro,

Eldeeb,

McCoy

et al. 2024

J of Prevention

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Prevention Science seeks to advance the prevention research and to translate scientific advances into the promotion of healthy development for all youth. Despite tremendous progress creating a robust evidence-base and set of translational tools, elaborations and expansions for equity are required. Our collective errors of omission as prevention researchers have left prevention practitioners and policy-makers without sufficient information to identify strategies that have been demonstrated to prevent behavioral health problems in young people who identify as Black, Indigenous, or other People of Color (BIPOC). We first describe the current shortcomings of available evidence, and then we call for individual and collective action to conceptualize equity-enhancing prevention, sample more inclusively, and improve analytic approaches such that we can truly promote the healthy development of all youth.

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Still We Resist: Reflections on Our Tenure as Editors-in-Chief

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Pandemics, Protests, and Feminist Politics of Resistance

Pandemics, Protests, and Feminist Politics of Resistance

First They Came for Critical Race Theory …

Where’s the BIPOC Blueprint for Healthy Youth Development? The Role of Scientific Omissions in Our Struggle for Science Translation and Racial Equity in the United States

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