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Chapter 2. Mental Health Workers Have Never Been the Solution to Racial Violence by Police
From: Abolish Social Work (As We Know It)
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The text first examines psychiatry’s historical roots in colonial ideology, which scientifically justified racial hierarchies and state-sanctioned harm. Next, it analyzes the systemic entanglement between mental health care and carceral systems, highlighting social workers who facilitate policing functions rather than acting neutrally. Finally, the author asserts that resolving racial violence requires dismantling integrated carceral practices within mental health administration instead of merely reforming or substituting state agents.
Contributors
Edward Hon-Sing Wong
Craig Fortieris a Tkaronto/Toronto based scholar and community organizer. They have worked as a social worker in housing, youth organizing, and non-profit funding organizations while also organizing with migrant justice, queer/trans*, anti-capitalist, and Indigenous solidarity movements. Currently, they are an associate professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University College (University of Waterloo) and are the author of Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism.
