Little progress has been made to confront racism in research, despite recent calls perpetuated by the racial reckoning of 2020. In an article for The University of Chicago Press, authors including BU School of Social Work Prof. Linda Sprague Martinez say that solving this problem starts with building better anti-racist and anti-oppressive (ARAO) frameworks. These […]
In an op-ed published by The Boston Globe in The Emancipator, Prof. Phillipe Copeland of Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) explains how racial oligarchy – rule based on wealth and racism – has reasserted itself in the years since the George Floyd protests prompted claims of a “racial reckoning.” Excerpted from “Call ‘tough on crime’ […]
This past summer, Massachusetts passed the Work and Family Mobility Act, which made qualified state residents eligible for driver’s licenses regardless of immigration status. However, a small but vocal group has added a ballot question to the Massachusetts general election that could reverse the law. BUSSW PhD candidate and Brazilian immigrant Cristina Brinkerhoff (PhD’23) wrote […]
In an effort to bridge a structural racism gap in social work and public health education, BUSSW’s Equity & Inclusion Committee developed a free online course, “Understanding Structural & Institutional Racism.” BU Today recently interviewed Prof. Dawn Belkin Martinez, dean of equity and inclusion, and PhD candidates Noor Toraif (SSW’23), and Greer Hamilton (SSW’24) on […]