Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice: Case Study

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Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice
Associations of whiteness with privilege are more immune to changes in the demographic makeup of the United States than are associations between whiteness and invisibility; if anything, the link between whiteness and privilege is more likely to be strengthened than weakened with an increase in the nonwhite population. Although the privileges associated with whiteness are often obvious to nonwhites (Roediger 1998), many whites themselves fail to see the connection between their opportunities in life and their racial identity, much as their race is generally invisible to them. In some cases, this failure to recognize the connection is due to nonobvious legacies of structural advantage (Lipsitz 1998); in other …show more content…
Critical reflection has been developed as part of this need and aims to bring knowledge of how social structures affect social work practice (Brookfield, 2009; Dominelli, 2002; Fook, 2002). Critical theorists have introduced reflection as a way for the social worker to develop awareness of how she and social work practice uphold oppression as part of an unreflective, everyday practice. By understanding oppression as a …show more content…
Oppression restricts both self-development and self-determination. It delimits who can imagine becoming and the power to act in support of one’s rights and aspiration. A girl-child in the United States in 2006, for example, especially if she is poor or of color, is still unlikely to imagine herself as president since, unlike many other countries, we have yet to elect a woman to this high office (p.

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