The Black Power Movement and American Social Work by Joyce Bell (English) Hardco

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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.

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Joyce M. Bell is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Minnesota, and her work is in the area of race and social movements.

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Race, Resistance, and the Civil Sphere 2. Re-envisioning the Black Power Movement 3. The Rise of the Black Power Professional 4. "A Nice Social Tea Party": The Rocky Relationship Between Social Work and Black Liberation 5. "We Stand Before You, Not as a Separatist Body": The Techni-Culture Movement to Gain Voice in the National Federation of Settlements 6. "We'll Build Our Own Thing": The Exit Strategy of the National Association of Black Social Workers 7. Exit and Voice in Intra-Organizational Social Movements 8. Conclusion: Institutionalizing Black Power Appendix 1: Methods Appendix 2: Founding Dates of Black Professional Associations Notes References Index

Review

In a pathbreaking analysis, Joyce M. Bell shows again how black Americans have been this society's most important driving force for social justice. By analyzing the role of a key player in the understudied Black Power movement, the National Association of Black Social Workers, Bell illustrates that movement's brilliant antiracist strategies and transforming impacts in separate black organizations and within historically white organizations. -- Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University Bell has added considerable depth and detailed analysis on the development of Black professional associations by filling a research gap in the existing literature concerning the institutionalization of the Black liberation movement during the age of Black Power. Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics Historians wishing to explore black power's deeper nuances will find this sociological study of "intra-organizational social movements" a good entry point. Journal of American History This study is a rich resource on both the development of Black professional organizations, as well as the influence of social movements in American society. -- Wilma Peebles-Wilkins Journal of Sociology & Social Work

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Finally we have a book that clearly shows Black Power was a social movement and, more importantly, that it left an institutional and political imprint on black professional organizations. After The Black Power Movement and American Social Work, no serious scholar can treat the Black Power movement as the crazy uncle of the civil rights movement. We are all indebted to Bell for this important scholarly tome. -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University Joyce M. Bell has written an important book. The Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s is often viewed as a disastrous social movement that fractured the constructive change achieved by Martin Luther King Jr. and the nonviolent Southern civil rights movement. Bell's book shatters this myth by revealing the pivotal role Black Power politics played in reshaping the social work profession. She shows how both white and black social workers were forced to reexamine their fundamental assumptions regarding how they should attend to the needs of their clients, especially poor people of color. The story of how the Black Power movement changed social work is not widely known or understood. The Black Power Movement and American Social Work erases this ignorance, enabling both professional social workers and the larger public to reach a sophisticated understanding of an important moment in our history. -- Aldon Morris, Northwestern University

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This study is a rich resource on both the development of Black professional organizations, as well as the influence of social movements in American society.

Excerpt from Book

Read the introduction, "Race, Resistance, and the Civil Sphere":

Details ISBN023116260X Publisher Columbia University Press Year 2014 ISBN-10 023116260X ISBN-13 9780231162609 Imprint Columbia University Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 361.308996073 Short Title BLACK POWER MOVEMENT & AMER SO Language English Media Book Format Hardcover Pages 256 Author Joyce Bell Publication Date 2014-06-17 Illustrations Charts: 2,, Figures: 2, Affiliation University of Pittsburgh Position Professor of Sociology Translated from English UK Release Date 2014-06-17 AU Release Date 2014-06-17 NZ Release Date 2014-06-17 US Release Date 2014-06-17 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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