Abstract

The profession and practice of social work is steeped in whiteness and white supremacy. Whiteness can be viewed as the normalization of helping those who are marginalized via a set of practices and techniques that, in the end, work to maintain the status quo of failing to recognize systemic and structural inequalities that privilege white people. A review of how the social work profession, primarily in North America and around the world, has been shaped by the historical and global evolvement of whiteness and supremacy is considered.

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