INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIAL
WELFARE
PIONEER Harriet Tubman
The historical intellectual biographies of
African American social work pioneers (Carlton-LaNey, 1990) builds students’
skills in using primary and secondary historical data to recover the
contributions indigenous behavioral health,
INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIAL
WELFARE PIONEER
The
historical intellectual biographies of African American social work pioneers
(Carlton-LaNey, 1990) builds students’ skills in using primary and secondary
historical data to recover the contributions indigenous behavioral health,
community organizing, mutual aid, and race-conscious work that contributes to
contemporary practice of the profession.
Each student will
select an African American Social Welfare Pioneer from
the attached list and
prepare a scholarly paper based on the guidelines
from Carlton-LaNey, I. (1990). The
intellectual biography: A mechanism for integrating historical content.
You
will need to develop:
a.
A digital
presentation
b.
A scholarly
paper (MAXIMUM 10 pages) including at least TWO primary source/artifact. The
paper must include
one of the core theories of urban social work and a
discussion of the implication for current social work practice. This assignment is not a simple cut and
paste bio. You will need to provide critical
content which informs contemporary social work practice with urban Black
families. (see below questions for
consideration and outline)Guidelines for shaping your paper/digital project.
Blackness is not a monolith — it is a complexly rich and
beautiful identity that is uniquely expressed worldwide. Imaging
Blackness is the complex concept of
expressing, recognizing, or assigning specific sets of ideas or values used in
the depiction of Blacks. In other words, “How Black people act or show up in
different spaces. “
1.
Describe how the presence of
Blackness is demonstrated
2.
Provide information about the
political/social context which marks the presence of Blackness ( i.e. what is
happening that shapes Black lives, such as The Montgomery Bus Boycott or/and
racial segregation).
3.
How are issues of inequality being
challenged?
4.
What event(s) facilitate resistance?
