Social work has struggled to successfully respond to the contradictions within it that perpetuate systemically racist outcomes in the world. Attentions to racial inequities, issues of discrimination, disproportionalities, history and representation are among the most surfaced and resurfaced analytical trajectories within the intermittent contributions that engage with these complexities in the field. Often, these contributions are made and social work as a field continues to advance research, teaching, training, policy and practice outcomes in the areas of child welfare, mental health, substance use, criminal justice, ageing, healthcare, disability services and international social work that are complicit with, and authoring daily, systemically racist outcomes in ways that are often left unsaid. These contradictions are too often left as uncanny occurrences in social work. This chapter aims to contribute an analysis of the ways in which post/anti/decolonial thought, anti-racist, critical race theory and anti-oppressive discourses are said in disingenuous ways that superficially make claims to critical knowledge that are artificially personified in social work identities.
Authors
Joseph A
Book title
The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work