The Impact and Influence of HBCUs on the Social Work Profession

Bowles, Dorcas D.; Hopps, June Gary; Clayton, Obie

doi:10.1080/10437797.2016.1112650

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“…Also, there was Whitney M. Young Jr., a civil rights leader, advisor to three U.S. Presidents, and the first African American President of NASW (National Association of Social Workers). There were other influential colleagues who were mostly located at HBCU’s (Bowles, Hopps, & Clayton, 2016; Carlton-LaNey, 2000).…”

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“…Given the roles that African Americans have played (see Allen et al, 2018;Hoyt, in this special section of the scholarly impacts of African American social work scholars) as early as Du Bois, we ought not to abandon the richness they contribute to social work (Bowles, Hopps, and Clayton., 2016;Hopps, 1982). This important social welfare theme requires deliberate attention.…”

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Cracks in the Ceiling? Historical and Contemporary Trends of African American Deans of Schools of Social Work

Banks

Hopps

Briggs

2017

Research on Social Work Practice

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This article presents data from an exploratory study of the demographic and published scholarship profiles of the deans and university provosts of the top 50 schools of social work as ranked by the 2016 U.S. News and World Report ratings. Method: The authors used an exploratory design to conduct a content analysis of the demographic and scholarship characteristics of the deans and provosts of the 50 top schools of social work. Results: The data show that the majority of deans and provosts of the top 50 schools of social work are Caucasian. The frequency of mentions of African Americans and other ethnically diverse groups in published articles by deans is uneven. Implications: This study highlights recommendations to enhance the opportunities for deanships among racially diverse faculty and to guide further research that explores the reasons for lack of racially diverse candidates selected as deans of schools of social work.

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Cracks in the Ceiling? Historical and Contemporary Trends of African American Deans of Schools of Social Work

Banks

Hopps

Briggs

2017

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“…Black social workers, from the pioneers of the Progressive Era (Bowles et al, 2016;Carlton-LaNey, 1999;Martin & Martin, 1985) to those active in the Black Lives Matter Movement today, have understood the dynamic production of oppression as a result of racialized capitalism and patriarchy (Gilbert, 1974;Howard, 2017;Schiele, 2017;Brice & McLane-Davison, 2020). Training social work students in the legacy of Black social workers strategically decenters the narrative of white supremacy within the profession (Harvey, 2018).…”

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“…In summary, historically Black social workers maintained a collective resilience by insisting on their right to self-define and determine their path towards liberation. As professionals entering a field with financial loyalty to a political system of structural racism, they knew that they would need to preserve the narrative about Black humanity, by disrupting pathologizing messages imbedded in the training and practice of social work (Bowles et al, 2016;Jaggers, 2003;Reid-Merritt, 2010;Brice & McLane-Davison, 2020).…”

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Wringing Out the “Whitewash”

Ortega‐Williams

McLane-Davison²

2021

ASW

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In the 21st Century context of violent racial divides, dismantling racism in social work education requires deep trust that social transformation and healing is possible. “Wringing out the whitewash” metaphorically captures the heavy labor of interrupting the rigid Eurocentric epistemological hegemony undergirding the pedagogy, research, and praxis canons of social work. It requires rigorous attempts to unsettle and decenter entrenched white supremacist ideology, assumptions, and values. In this labor, we create space for the multiple identities and worldviews that students and professors occupy to reshape educational encounters. In this paper, we present our critical pedagogical approaches as Black social work educators committed to liberation and healing. We articulate how our positionalities as Black cisgender women at urban universities, one a Northeastern Historically Black College and University (HBCU) and another at a Northeastern public university, facilitate our intentions to honor truth-telling and intergenerational interdependence. We present differences and similarities in how we use assignments to disrupt the institutional reproduction of racism, provide solace for repair and healing, and re-center collective identity as strength. We present transdisciplinary frameworks shaping our pedagogical choices, namely historical trauma and urban womanist social work pedagogy. Implications for the future of social work education will be discussed.

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“…Yet, concern about the underrepresentation of African Americans and the absence of any focus on race and racial consciousness have been important social welfare themes raised by 19th-century African American scholars in sociology such as W. E. B. Du Bois (Bowles, Hopps, & Clayton, 2016) and 20th-century African American social work scholars such as Hopps (1982), Pinderhughes (1989), and Schiele (Schiele & Hopps (2009). Thus, it is our contention that social work research and practice have ignored these early lessons and have not adequately risen to the call to address these inequalities and the resultant issues that affect African Americans daily.…”

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Do Black Lives Really Matter—To Social Work? Introduction to the Special Edition

Holosko

Briggs

Miller

2017

Research on Social Work Practice

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This article presents and summarizes the special issue entitled: Practice, Research, and Scholarship on African American. The authors examine the professions' contradictory actions in partnering with African American scholars, communities, and people to achieve its social justice and civil rights mission. It reintroduces the reader of this collection to June Gary Hopps who originally rung the clarion call to action about the profession's waffling nature regarding African Americans. The authors overview the collection, which depicts the professions' lack of focus on issues of race, African American well-being, and oppression experiences. This issue unravels the role played by social work in its meager attention to the plight of African American leaders and faculty, their achievements, and challenges. It also conveys the realities of too few research studies on key issues impacting African Americans. This article concludes with a nudge to the reader to weigh the evidence contained in this serial.

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The Impact and Influence of HBCUs on the Social Work Profession

Cited by 20 publications

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Cracks in the Ceiling? Historical and Contemporary Trends of African American Deans of Schools of Social Work

Cracks in the Ceiling? Historical and Contemporary Trends of African American Deans of Schools of Social Work

Wringing Out the “Whitewash”

Do Black Lives Really Matter—To Social Work? Introduction to the Special Edition

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