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Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm
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Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Introduction
Worldviews and Cultural Oppression
Cultural Oppression and Social Science
Toward an Afrocentric Human Services Paradigm
Overview of the Book
Chapter Two: The Afrocentric Worldview
Historic Overview
Crirticisms of This Worldview
Characteristics of This Worldview
Afrocentricity, Equality, and Human Liberation
Chapter Three: The Evolution of Black Social Work and Its Pitfalls
Social Welfare in Traditional Africa
Black Social Welfare in America
Chapter Four: Oppression and Spiritual Alienation
The Relationship Between Oppression and Spiritual Alienation
Spiritual Alienation As Philosophical Foundation of Oppression
Spiritual Alienation As Outcome of Oppression
Chapter Five: Youth Violence and the Afrocentric Paradigm
Overview of Youth Violence
Political Economic Oppression and Youth Violence
Spiritual Alienation and Youth Violence Cultural Misorientation and Youth Violence
Chapter Six: Substance Abuse and the Afrocentric Paradigm
Political Economic Oppression and Substance Abuse
Spiritual Alienation and Substance Abuse
Cultural Misorientation and Substance Abuse
Afrocentric Drug Treatment Programs
Chapter Seven: The Afrocentric Paradigm and Social Welfare Philosophy, Ideology, and Policy
An Afrocentric Critique of American Social Welfare Policy
Foundations of an Afrocentric Political Ideology
Afrocentric Social Welfare Policy Recommendations
Chapter Eight: The Afrocentric Paradigm of Social Welfare Policy Analysis
Overview of the Afrocentric Policy Analytic Framework
Features of the Afrocentric Framework of Policy Analysis
Chapter Nine: The Afrocentric Paradigm and Human Service Organizations
Distinctions Between Afrocentric and Eurocentric Organizational Theories
The Afrocentric Paradigm and Positive Potentiality in Organizations
Empowerment Through Organizational Autonomy
Additional Considerations
Chapter Ten: Social Work Research and the Afrocentric Paradigm
Rationale for Afrocentric Social Work Research
Definition of Afrocentric Social Work Research
Attributes of Afrocentric Social Work Research
Chapter Eleven: Conclusion: Threats to the Survival and Continuation of the Afrocentric Paradigm
The Trend Toward Privatization
The Dominance of Postpositivist Epistemology in Academia
Continued Uneasiness with Spirituality
The Ascendancy of Postmodernism
Continued Cultural Misorientation
The African Oral Tradition
The Afrocentric Paradigm's Asociation with Black People
References
Index
About the Author
Jerome Schiele
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