Violent History of Benevolence

Chris Chapman is an associate professor of Social Work at York University. A.J Withers is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work at York University, and an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSocial Working, Interlocking Oppression, and Moral EconomiesA Brief Discussion of Some Indigenous Social Workings on This LandOrganization and Structure of A Violent History of BenevolencePart One: Deconstructing Social Work and Social Work History1 Troubling the Standard Account of Social WorkThe Standard AccountThe Pull of the Other Side of the RiverCharity Organization Societies: Beyond Friendly Visiting to the PoorSettlement Houses and Jane AddamsThe New "Social Work"What the Established Riverbanks ObscureContemporary Charity Organization and the Continued Polarity of the Riverbanks"Mingling" as Continued Solution to Structural ViolenceConclusion2 White Supremacy and the Erasure of Racialized Social WorkersSocial Work History as White Social Work HistoryBlack Churches: Bestowing Charity and Organizing for Change"Separate Spheres" and Women’s ClubsThe Great Migration: Migrant Assistance and the Shift towards Black IncarcerationBlack Settlement HousesWoman’s Christian Temperance UnionAnti-LynchingIda B. Wells-BarnettWhite Social Work and Anti-LynchingMaggie L. Walker and the Independent Order of St LukeThe Social Work Profession, Social Science, and EducationBlack Social Work in CanadaSettlements in CanadaAnti-Slavery Societies and Black Immigrant AssistanceSocial ServicesClass Stratification and How It Interlocked with Racism and Social WorkEarly Women Social Workers and Gender RolesSubjugated Community-Based Social Workings Beyond Black and WhiteConclusion3 Social Work as Displacement, Denigration, CisheteropatriarchalizationProfessional Social Work as the Delegitimization of Local Practices and PeopleCentring Imperialist Displacement; Decentring Ruling Class White ExceptionalityCisheteropatriarchalization as an Advancing White Ruling Class Moral EconomyEarly Professional Social Work and CisheteropatriarchyThe Ethic of the Healing Power of Domination and Imagined Moral SuperiorityAn Initial Shift in the Ethic of Relating Across Difference: The Knights HospitallerClaims of Relative Innocence, Part One: Progressive and Secular Dividing PracticesClaims of Relative Innocence, Part Two: Knowing It Was Wrong ConclusionPart Two: Interlocking Genealogies of the Ethic of the Healing Power of Domination and Imagined Moral Superiority4 Knowing Better: Liberalism, Instrumental Violence, and Making New HumansWhat We Like to Say; What We Actually DoClaims of Relative Innocence, Part Three: Interpreting Others’ MotivationsFurther Standardizing Instrumental Violence: The Theresian Criminal ConstitutionKant’s Enlightened Morality: Rational Self-Assurance and the Birth of the "New Man"Gentle Instrumental Violences, Part One: Rationalizing Colonial EducationGentle Instrumental Violences, Part Two: Continual Observation and Coerced PenitenceGentle Instrumental Violences, Part Three: Psychiatry, Unchaining, and Moral TreatmentSurveillance, Sorting, and Scientific StratificationThe Validation and Invalidation of the Invalid: Emergent Social Welfare PolicyThe Validation and Invalidation of the "Indian": 1800s White Settler Colonial PolicyLegislated Exclusions: Racialized and Disablist Immigration PoliciesConclusion5 Rehabilitation/EugenicsThe Moral Economy of RehabilitationThe Origins of Rehabilitation before the First World WarSoldiers, Sailors, and SamenessMedical, Economic, and Civil RehabilitationOvercoming DisabilityNationalizing RehabilitationProfessional Social Work and RehabilitationRehabilitation and the Enforcement of CisheteronormativityRehabilitation/Eugenics and Whiteness/Nationality/CitizenshipConclusion6 Assimilation/GenocideThe Moral Economy of AssimilationDestroying LivesThe Unquestionable Good of Imposing Whiteness onto OthersDestroying LifeworldsWhite Supremacy and CareConclusion7 What If It Isn’t Getting Better? What Do We Do Then?The Significance of Implicating Ourselves in Interlocking Legacies of ViolenceIs It Getting Better?Still "Forcibly Transferring Children of the Group to Another Group"Towards Addressing the Chronic Gap between What We Say and What We DoNavigating Inherently Oppressive Systems: The Everyday Life of Many a Social WorkerMoving Forward: Learning from Social Movements and Displaced PracticesDisability Justice and the Democratic Redistribution of Dependence and CareConclusionConclusion: The Varied Paths That Brought Us HereTimeline: Selected Events from the Age of Enlightenment through the Progressive EraNotesReferencesIndex