TY - JOUR
T1 - Cultural transformation of university social work curricula
T2 - Black Lives Matter and the Spanish colonial past
AU - Montenegro, Marisela
AU - Pujol, Joan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Policy Press 2022.
PY - 2022/6/28
Y1 - 2022/6/28
N2 - The Spanish colonial past permeates the institutions of higher education, configuring the contents and forms of disciplinary knowledge production that constitute it, as is the case of social work. In this article, we visit different scenarios where colonial memories are disputed in the context of the commemorations of 12 October (also called 'Hispanic Day' or 'Race Day') in Barcelona. Although multiple articulations of anti-racist movements, such as those related to Black Lives Matter, question the material and semiotics that sustain structural racism, colonial cultural layers are still predominant in the Spanish state. Analysis shows how colonial logics nest in social work practice by: first, contributing to the definition of subject positions - such as 'migrant' - as problematic and needy of integration policies and intervention; and, second, making structural racism invisible through the avoidance of radical analysis and action regarding the cultural layers that sustain and perpetuate institutional racism.
AB - The Spanish colonial past permeates the institutions of higher education, configuring the contents and forms of disciplinary knowledge production that constitute it, as is the case of social work. In this article, we visit different scenarios where colonial memories are disputed in the context of the commemorations of 12 October (also called 'Hispanic Day' or 'Race Day') in Barcelona. Although multiple articulations of anti-racist movements, such as those related to Black Lives Matter, question the material and semiotics that sustain structural racism, colonial cultural layers are still predominant in the Spanish state. Analysis shows how colonial logics nest in social work practice by: first, contributing to the definition of subject positions - such as 'migrant' - as problematic and needy of integration policies and intervention; and, second, making structural racism invisible through the avoidance of radical analysis and action regarding the cultural layers that sustain and perpetuate institutional racism.
KW - anti-racist movements
KW - knowledge production
KW - Spain
KW - structural racism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85138648580&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1332/204986021X16530442276819
DO - 10.1332/204986021X16530442276819
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85138648580
SN - 2049-8608
VL - 10
SP - 209
EP - 225
JO - Critical and Radical Social Work
JF - Critical and Radical Social Work
IS - 2
ER -