Breakout 1C: Building an Anti-Racism Movement Within the Profession: Toward Eliminating Racism & White Supremacy

Over the last few years, social work's professional organizations have emphasized such concepts as structural racism, White supremacy, whiteness, and anti-racism. While this is an important step toward highlighting relevant concepts to explain the current injustices against Black, Indigenous, People of color, (BIPOC), social workers must gain a macro-level understanding of these concepts in order to implement effective action steps toward eliminating racism and White supremacy. This presentation will offer macro-level definitions of racial concepts, highlight antiracism resources within the profession, and provide macro-level actions to support the anti-racism goals identified by the social work profession.