Liberation as Praxis for Antiracist, Anti-Oppressive Approaches to Higher Education and Social Work Using a BlackCrit Lens
Abstract
Liberation as a praxis for the helping professions is a tool of resistance aimed at increasing cultural awareness and trauma informed approaches to engaging with marginalized populations. This approach requires of each of us in the helping professions to interrogate our own relationships with anti-Blackness, white supremacy, and bigotry. In order for effective advocates to do the good work of helping people, there must be a disassociation from white supremacy and white supremacists’ ideologies. Liberation as a praxis is the only way.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Social Work Education and Practice
Critical Race Theory in Education
Critical and Liberation Pedagogy
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 251–262
- Publication date
- 30 January 2026
- Document type
- Book chapter