Social Work, the Americanization Movement, and the Construction of Americans, 1874-1930 - Paperback

by Yoosun Park (Author), Michael Reisch (Author)

This book analyzes the role of social work in the Americanization Movement. It asserts that the emerging field of social work played a significant role in both the execution of the movement and the development and promulgation of theories and processes that rationalized its determination of the borders of inclusion.

Author Biography

Yoosun Park is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Ph.D. program in the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Her award-winning scholarship aims to extend the borders of social work knowledge and inform the education of the next generation of social work practitioners and researchers. She is the author of Facilitating Injustice: The Complicity of Social Workers in the Forced Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1946.

Michael Reisch is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland. He is the author or editor of 40 books and monographs and hundreds of journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers on the history and philosophy of social welfare and social work. He is the recipient of the Significant Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council on Social Work Education and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.