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The Black Power Movement and American Social Work
2014
Overview
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 impression 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, Joyce M. Bell 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 Welfare (NCSW), who ultimately adopted a separatist strategy, she shows how the Black Power influence was central to the creation and rise of black professional associations. She also provides a nuanced approach to studying race-based movements and offers a framework for understanding the role of social movements in shaping the non-state organizations of civil society.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Subject
/ African American social workers
/ African American social workers -- History -- 20th century
/ Black power -- United States
/ History
/ HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
/ Social service -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ Social workers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
ISBN
9780231162609, 0231538014, 9780231538015, 023116260X
