The Black Power Movement and American Social Work
Joyce M. Bell
eISBN: 9780231538015
2014 (256 pages 2 charts, 2 figures)
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(pages 1-257)
Front Matter
(pages 1-7)
Table of Contents
(pages 8-9)
Foreword, by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
(pages 10-15)
Acknowledgments
(pages 16-21)
1. Introduction: Race, Resistance, and the Civil Sphere
(pages 22-45)
2. Re-envisioning the Black Power Movement
(pages 46-65)
3. The Rise of the Black Power Professional
(pages 66-90)
4. “A Nice Social Tea Party”: The Rocky Relationship Between Social Work and Black Liberation
(pages 91-109)
5. “We Stand Before You, Not as a Separatist Body”: The Techni-Culture Movement to Gain Voice in the National Federation of Settlements
(pages 110-134)
6. “We’ll Build Our Own Thing”: The Exit Strategy of the National Association of Black Social Workers
(pages 135-169)
7. Exit and Voice in Intra-Organizational Social Movements
(pages 170-191)
8. Conclusion: Institutionalizing Black Power
(pages 192-201)
Appendix 1: Methods
(pages 202-208)
Appendix 2: Founding Dates of Black Professional Associations
(pages 209-211)
Notes
(pages 212-227)
References
(pages 228-241)
Index
(pages 242-257)
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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 image misses the full extent of Black Power’s contributions to U.S. society, especially in regard to black professionals in social work.
Relying on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, this study follows two groups of black social workers in the 1960s and 1970s as they mobilized Black Power ideas, strategies, and tactics to change their national professional associations. Comparing black dissenters within the National Federation of Settlements (NFS), who fought for concessions from within their organization, and those within the National Conference on Social Work (NCSW), who ultimately adopted a separatist strategy, this book shows how the Black Power influence was central to the rise of black professional associations. It provides a nuanced approach to studying race-based movements and offers a framework for understanding the role of social movements in shaping the nonstate organizations of civil society.
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The Black Power Movement and American Social Work
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Bell, Joyce M.
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