A Renewed Focus
Larry Davis asserts that today?s society sees racism as no longer important, that enough progress has been made, and that we should move on. His lecture stresses, however, that racism remains a social problem and that essentially most of America's problems are somehow linked with race. Noting the high percentage of Black families headed by single parents, the impressive number of women of color diagnosed with cervical cancer, as well as the increasing amount of African Americans living in poverty, Davis suggests that our focus should be on removing the presence of potential harm from the lives of our clients, rather than enhancing their abilities to sustain that harm. He recommends that the profession become more straightforwardly involved in the area of race relations, that schools of social work offer specializations on race relations, that we place greater emphasis in the community on interracial group collaboration, that we make greater race relations outreach efforts to immigrants, and that schools of social work take the lead in campuses in addressing interracial relationships on their campus.
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