Social Justice Unit Analysis

This week we were assigned to read to different articles. The first article was written by Peggy McIntosh titled, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”. Throughout the article, Peggy showed the readers what it means to have white privilege. She showed the readers 50 different types of “advantages” that whites get over other races, such as African Americans. This is the biggest theme throughout her entire piece.

You might have heard of many social justices, but you probably don’t know exactly what they are. This essay will show you two examples of people who brought social justice to our world. The biography, “Mother Jones” by Judith Josephson is about a woman, Mary “Mother” Jones who lead a march to fight injustices against the mill children who were treated unfairly and got almost to no pay. Similarly, “About Cesar”, the biography, by the Cesar Chavez Foundation,(CCF), was about Cesar Chavez who fought for the rightful treatment of farm workers. These beacons of justice were both fighters for workers’ rights.

The Progressive Era, from 1890- 1920 was an influential time in American history. There was political reform in an effort to bring about social justice, but it was also a time when big businesses thrived. However, in the past their prominence and power went unchecked, now liberal radicals started fighting for justice, making the government control the corporations before they destroyed the country. With big businesses growing at a quick pace, they needed more management, known as middle management, to control it. Alfred Chandler, a business professor, specifically a economist, analyzes this in chapter eight, “Mass Production” from his book, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business.

Introduction I have discussed in this piece Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Anti Oppressive Practice (AOP) approach to social work. Subjects such as Race and Racism, Microaggression, White privilege, Power and Empowerment in addition with Identity are themes links these two radical theories together which I have also discussed. I have concluded the work by stressing how CRT and AOP could be use to seek social justice for Black and Minority ethnic group (BME) within the UK society. Critical Race Theory CRT CRT came into existence because of the racial oppression in united state during the 1970’s. The theory was formed in other to awaken the society at a time when relationships between races had stalled.

Sakamoto and Pitner (2005) write that AOP works towards eliminating the oppressions that negatively affect people’s lives by challenging the structural forces currently in place, which give some people more power than others. They also comment that social workers are never neutral professionals, and that it is their duty to initiate and further social movements, while also helping individual clients. Taking an AOP approach to social work helps to ensure that practitioners are pursuing social justice in their practice, which is an important aspect of social work that can be neglected when focusing solely on individual clients and their personal

The Disease of Being Colored Colored, nigger, African American, black, coon, and Negro are all the words that describe my race. These are the words that helped mold me into the woman that I am today. Not all of the words that I have listed are in a respectful manner, but they all mean one thing; A black person. Although all of those names can be thrown towards anyone of the African decedent, often times people do not care to see behind the skin of an individual. In hindsight everyone looks alike when the lights are off, and when we are even dead and buried in the ground.

Privilege is a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people. It is an issue that has been occurring throughout the world since the dawn of time. Consequently, it remains a heavily debated topic and still continues to be a problem in today’s society. An example of past privilege is On the Road by Jack Kerouac. It is a Beat Generation historical fiction novel published September 5, 1957.

Being a social justice advocate means that you are advocating for all races, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and others (the list could go on forever) should be treated the same and that they should all be entitled to the same resources. One of the most important thing about being a social justice advocate is to not just be advocating for your rights, rather for equality of everyone. For me personally, being a white, straight, female a lot of the privileges are privileges that I have access to. But just because I personally have access to them doesn’t mean that shouldn’t still be advocating for everyone else because that’s what it means to be a social justice

Anatomy of Injustice is the story of the homicide indictment of Edward Elmore. The author, Raymond Bonner, displays a convincing argument that the state of South Carolina indicted a guiltless individual when Elmore was sentenced for capital murder and awarded a death sentence in April of 1982. All things considered, the book speaks to an alternate expansion to the accumulation of books specifying wrongful convictions in capital cases (Grisham, 2006; Junkin, 2004; Edds, 2003). Dorothy Edwards was a widow and mainstay of her community in Greenwood, South Carolina. On January 17, 1982, her body was found in the wardrobe of her room by a neighbour, Jimmy Holloway.

Social justice is obviously a big problem in today 's society. A lot of us fail to recognize people for who they truly are and sometimes treat people that are different from us unfairly. I never understood why people treated others differently because of the color of their skin or because of who they were attracted to or because of a disability that they may have. At the end of the day we are all human beings and we are all created the same way. We should all have social equality.

Is privilege actually a play on words when one examines the possible outcome of it? Privilege is summed up as the rights that people have yet they have done nothing to earn them. This sounds great for the privileged, but what about the non-privileged person, how does it make them feel? I had to really look into some areas of my life to see where I felt most privileged. I have to say that the one thing that weighed heaviest on my mind was the fact that I am a NCAA athlete at a Division I school.

Civil rights are the rights of all people to have social freedom and equality. Civil rights were declared by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. From the earliest years of Europeans settlements in North America, whites enslaved and abused blacks. Although the Civil War brought about the practice of slavery , a harsh system supremacy continued. In the early twentieth century African Americans in the south were banned from association with whites in public places.

Organizational Analysis Regarding Social Justice Though working toward social justice is the pinnacle of the mission of social workers, not every organization employing social workers has social justice as its first priority. Luckily, many organizations that employ social workers in Richmond, Virginia value social justice as a major piece of their purposes. One such organization in Richmond is the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). The Richmond YWCA emulates a strong duty to social justice, evident in nearly all of its offered services and interactions with the Richmond community. Conceived in 1887, the Richmond YWCA has been able to accommodate a growing number of staff, clients, and community needs for more than one hundred

Social justice involves all the rights of people, what is owed to them and their responsibility towards their nation, state and community. Human rights, equality and solidarity are vital to social justice. Equality refers to the fair treatment of all people regardless of their differences such as race, gender, ethnicity or sexual preference (Alexander, 2005). Human rights are those that entail the respect of the sanctity of life in all its forms. Solidarity is the spirit of valuing other human beings and the pursuit to respect all life.

Theory of Justice Analysis A person’s actions and consequences of those behaviors may not only affects self but also have effects on the lives of others. Depending on the ultimate goal of a person’s activities and the type of activities, the ethics of such actions may be geared either towards addressing the actions or towards addressing the outcomes of these actions. Based on the intentions and outcomes of the ethical guidelines they provide, there are four primary classes of ethics including relativism, virtue ethics, deontology, and consequentialism (Tilley, 2005). Rawls’ Theory of Justice aims at overcoming the shortcomings of virtue, consequence, duty, and relativism brought about by other ethical approaches by eliminating various factors