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Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work brings together critical social
work authors to passionately engage with pressing social issues,
and to pose new solutions, practices and analysis in the context of
growing inequities and the need for reconciliation, decolonization
and far-reaching change. The book presents strong intersectional
perspectives and practice, engaging closely with decolonization,
re-Indigenization, resistance and social justice. Like the first
three editions, the 4th edition foregrounds the voices of those
less heard in social work academia and to provide cutting-edge
critical reflection and skills, including social work's
relationship to the state, and social work's responsibility to
individuals, communities and its own ethics and standards of
practice. Indigenous, Black, racialized, transgender, (dis)Ability
and allied scholars offer identity-engaged and intersectional
analyses on a wide-range of issues facing those working with
intersectional cultural humility, racism and child welfare, poverty
and single mothers, critical gerontology and older people, and
immigrant and racialized families. This 4th edition of Doing
Anti-Oppressive Social Work goes well beyond its predecessors,
updating and revising popular chapters, but also problematizing AOP
and engaging closely with new and emerging issues.
During the 60s Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada
were removed from their biological families, lands and culture and
trafficked across provinces, borders and overseas to be raised in
non-Indigenous households. Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh delves into the
personal and provocative narrative of Colleen Cardinal's journey
growing up in a non- Indigenous household as a 60s Scoop adoptee.
Cardinal speaks frankly and intimately about instances of violence
and abuse throughout her life, but this book is not a story of
tragedy. It is a story of empowerment, reclamation and, ultimately,
personal reconciliation. It is a form of Indigenous resistance
through truth-telling, a story that informs the narrative on
missing and murdered Indigenous women, colonial violence, racism
and the Indigenous child welfare system.
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