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