Willie Tolliver
Biographic Data
| ID | 216166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Willie Tolliver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Willie |
| FAMILY NAME | Tolliver |
| SIGNATURE | TOLLIVER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Kneading, Needing, and Eating Black Bodies
Social workers have been on the frontlines alongside marginalized communities since the profession's emergence. This stance continues with supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement and centering the structural inequities that the COVID-19 pandemic highlights. A narrative that centers the history of social work's concern for Black citizenship in the profession's formation is neglected in the literature. This historical review traces the genesis o…
Cultural responses to loss and grief among Black Americans
Dying, death, and grief are universal human experiences that are impacted by cultural values and beliefs. We provide service providers a context from which to consider the importance of spirituality and religiosity in the grief process and the variances in grief practices that exist within the Black community. This knowledge can serve as a catalyst for developing culturally appropriate interventions for Black people aimed at helping them to more …
Six feet apart or six feet under
To date, 110,000+ people in the United States have died from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, the authors will discuss COVID-19 relative to Black people and their overrepresentation among those who are infected and died from the disease. Their dying, death, and grief experiences are explored through a cultural and spiritual lens. The physical distancing, social isolation, misinformation, and restrictive burials and cremations now elicited by…
An authentic discourse
This study explores the relationship between race, racism, and attitudes toward police violence against adult males. Study participants comprised a national sample (N = 1,974) of adult males and females (M = 48 years) who completed the 2012 General Social Survey (GSS). Secondary data analysis of surveys administered in-person or on the telephone by trained GSS interviewers indicated that race is a key predictor of police violence against adult ma…
Police killings of unarmed Black people
The academic frames of diversity and, to a lesser extent, intersectionality mute the roles played by race and racism in the recent police killings of unarmed Black people in the United States. Most scholars agree that racism today is systemic, and the authors of this article assert that diversity content fails to prepare social workers to situate client issues in a social work practice that incorporates an understanding of the impact of racializa…
Invoking the spirit
The article reports on a collaborative project undertaken by Hunter College School of Social Work and an agency using a psychospiritual method to stabilize and enhance family well‐being. The purpose of the collaborative was to document the psychospiritual method and develop an M.S. W. student unit to educate, train and recruit African American and Latino students committed to providing ethnically relevant and spiritually sensitive services to ind…
Police killings of unarmed Black people
The academic frames of diversity and, to a lesser extent, intersectionality mute the roles played by race and racism in the recent police killings of unarmed Black people in the United States. Most scholars agree that racism today is systemic, and the authors of this article assert that diversity content fails to prepare social workers to situate client issues in a social work practice that incorporates an understanding of the impact of racializa…
An authentic discourse
This study explores the relationship between race, racism, and attitudes toward police violence against adult males. Study participants comprised a national sample (N = 1,974) of adult males and females (M = 48 years) who completed the 2012 General Social Survey (GSS). Secondary data analysis of surveys administered in-person or on the telephone by trained GSS interviewers indicated that race is a key predictor of police violence against adult ma…
Six feet apart or six feet under
To date, 110,000+ people in the United States have died from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, the authors will discuss COVID-19 relative to Black people and their overrepresentation among those who are infected and died from the disease. Their dying, death, and grief experiences are explored through a cultural and spiritual lens. The physical distancing, social isolation, misinformation, and restrictive burials and cremations now elicited by…
Cultural responses to loss and grief among Black Americans
Dying, death, and grief are universal human experiences that are impacted by cultural values and beliefs. We provide service providers a context from which to consider the importance of spirituality and religiosity in the grief process and the variances in grief practices that exist within the Black community. This knowledge can serve as a catalyst for developing culturally appropriate interventions for Black people aimed at helping them to more …
Invoking the spirit
The article reports on a collaborative project undertaken by Hunter College School of Social Work and an agency using a psychospiritual method to stabilize and enhance family well‐being. The purpose of the collaborative was to document the psychospiritual method and develop an M.S. W. student unit to educate, train and recruit African American and Latino students committed to providing ethnically relevant and spiritually sensitive services to ind…
Invoking the spirit
The article reports on a collaborative project undertaken by Hunter College School of Social Work and an agency using a psychospiritual method to stabilize and enhance family well‐being. The purpose of the collaborative was to document the psychospiritual method and develop an M.S. W. student unit to educate, train and recruit African American and Latino students committed to providing ethnically relevant and spiritually sensitive services to ind…
An authentic discourse
This study explores the relationship between race, racism, and attitudes toward police violence against adult males. Study participants comprised a national sample (N = 1,974) of adult males and females (M = 48 years) who completed the 2012 General Social Survey (GSS). Secondary data analysis of surveys administered in-person or on the telephone by trained GSS interviewers indicated that race is a key predictor of police violence against adult ma…
Police killings of unarmed Black people
The academic frames of diversity and, to a lesser extent, intersectionality mute the roles played by race and racism in the recent police killings of unarmed Black people in the United States. Most scholars agree that racism today is systemic, and the authors of this article assert that diversity content fails to prepare social workers to situate client issues in a social work practice that incorporates an understanding of the impact of racializa…
Cultural responses to loss and grief among Black Americans
Dying, death, and grief are universal human experiences that are impacted by cultural values and beliefs. We provide service providers a context from which to consider the importance of spirituality and religiosity in the grief process and the variances in grief practices that exist within the Black community. This knowledge can serve as a catalyst for developing culturally appropriate interventions for Black people aimed at helping them to more …
Six feet apart or six feet under
To date, 110,000+ people in the United States have died from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, the authors will discuss COVID-19 relative to Black people and their overrepresentation among those who are infected and died from the disease. Their dying, death, and grief experiences are explored through a cultural and spiritual lens. The physical distancing, social isolation, misinformation, and restrictive burials and cremations now elicited by…
Kneading, Needing, and Eating Black Bodies
Social workers have been on the frontlines alongside marginalized communities since the profession's emergence. This stance continues with supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement and centering the structural inequities that the COVID-19 pandemic highlights. A narrative that centers the history of social work's concern for Black citizenship in the profession's formation is neglected in the literature. This historical review traces the genesis o…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Racism (3 works) · Social Work (3 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (3 works)