Jerome H Schiele
Biographic Data
| ID | 641558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome H Schiele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome H |
| FAMILY NAME | Schiele |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIELE J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark Atlanta University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Origins of Opportunity, Part 1
This paper marks the 50th anniversary of the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Minority Fellowship Program (MFP), exploring its historical development. Leveraging archival CSWE materials, it chronicles pivotal events from 1954 leading to the MFP’s inception in 1973 and its early research fellowship cohorts through 1978. This historical analysis examines the advocacy, challenges, and milestones within the CSWE and broader social movements …
The future of race, ethnicity, and culture in social work
Diversity and Its Discontents in Social Work
Trayvon Martin
To address a critical gap in the social work literature, this article examines the deleterious effects of racial profiling as it pertains to police targeting of male African Americans. The authors use the Trayvon Martin court case to exemplify how racial profiling and black male stigma help perpetuate social inequality and injustice for black men. A racism-centered perspective is examined historically and contemporarily as a theoretical approach …
The Afrocentric paradigm in social work
The Afrocentric paradigm in social work is an important professional development towards rendering social work practice more culturally competent. Grounded in a critique of Eurocentric models of social science and social work practice, the paradigm draws heavily on the shared cultural values and practices of traditional Africa that have been articulated most poignantly in Cheikh Anta Diop's two cradle theory. The Afrocentric paradigm also relies …
Lessons From the Maafa
The culture of hip-hop and the legacy of some artists have received much criticism during the past two decades. At the center of that controversy is one artist who is never forgotten, for better or worse, Tupac Amaru Shakur. Although the legacy of Tupac looms large in urban centers around the world among the popular culture of youth, there has been little attention paid to him as a central figure in the professional literature. This article explo…
Equality-of-oppressions and anti-discriminatory models in social work
Although the equality-of-oppressions paradigm in the USA and the anti-discriminatory framework in the UK are progressive steps in affirming the lives of many groups, they are limited in their ability to highlight the continued significance of racism in contemporary social work education. This comparative paper examines how universal frameworks of oppression in social work have helped to diminish the significance of racial oppression and begins by…
Racial Minorities Then and Now
It has been 27 years since the last special issue on racial minorities appeared in Social Work. When the issue appeared in 1982, Jerome Schiele was pursuing an undergraduate degree in sociology at Hampton University. June Gary Hopps was editor of the 1982 special issue and had by then distinguished herself as a social work educator, scholar, and administrator. This generational difference provides an opportunity to reflect on the evolution and st…
Cultural Oppression and the High-Risk Status of African Americans
One of the persistent and perennial challenges faced by African Americans is that of cultural oppression. Although the effects of oppression on African Americans have received enormous attention, much of the focus has been on political and economic oppression as the primary sources of the social problems that African Americans confront. Less emphasis has been placed on connecting political and economic oppression to cultural oppression and on vie…
Maggie Lena Walker and African American Community Development
One of the unsung heroines of the African American tradition of community development is Maggie Lena Walker. Walker was the first woman in the United States to establish a bank that still exists today. She also started a merchandise department store, operated a newspaper, and was a prominent leader in a major African American mutual aid organization—the Independent Order of St. Luke. This article discusses Walker’s community development contribut…
Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm
Mutations of Eurocentric Domination and Their Implications for African American Resistance
An increasing observation by many social scientists is that the method through which European Americans maintain control over society's political, economic, and cultural institutions has mutated. Over the last 30 years or so, Eurocentric domination can be assumed to have mutated away from domination by repression/terror toward domination by seduction. This article discusses five sociopolitical trends through which this mutation has occurred and e…
When White Boys Kill
The image of male youth homicide is primarily associated with young black males. However, recent school shootings in which multiple innocent victims were murdered indicate that young white males may be at serious risk of a much more tragic homicidal phenomenon known as multicide. This paper offers a conceptual framework to explain multicide and violence generally among young white males by employing an Afrocentric analysis. This analysis assumes …
E. Franklin Frazier and the Interfacing of Black Sociology and Black Social Work
E. Franklin Frazier is known almost exclusively for his scholarly contributions after the publication of his seminal book, The Negro Family in the United States. Less is known about Frazier's professional life and scholarly contributions during the period when he was Director of the Atlanta School of Social Work between 1922 and 1927. Frazier was part of that generation of black scholars who benefited from the fluid interfacing of sociology and s…
Cultural Alignment African American Male Youths and Violent Crime
Four theories-racial inferiority, culture of poverty, racial discrimination, and political economy-are usually advanced to explain violence among African Americans. These theories, however, fail to underscore the deleterious influence that cultural oppression and cultural alienation have on African Americans generally and African American male youths specifically. To examine the role both cultural oppression and cultural alienation play in the li…
The Contour and Meaning of Afrocentric Social Work
One of the consistent and disturbing features of my undergraduate and graduate training was the pervasiveness of academic theories that emerged from people who were not members of my cultural group. Regardless of the course, the textbooks used and theories discussed were almost exclusively written and developed by White people, especially White men. At first, I did not pay too much attention to this occurrence. However, as time went on and as I b…
An Afrocentric Perspective on Social Welfare Philosophy and Policy
Although much of the literature on American social welfare philosophy and policy is progressive and sincere in its objectives to dismantle poverty and economic oppression, the literature is limited in two important areas: 1) identifying American social welfare philosophy and policy as primarily Eurocentric in its worldview, and 2) applying the cultural values of people of color as a conceptual base to advance and diversify views on social welfare…
Afrocentricity
The concept of cultural diversity in higher education in the United States has been significantly restricted. Discussions and debates have focused primarily on enhancing the presence of students and faculty of color, with a special emphasis on recruitment and retention (Blackwell, 1987, 1988; Carter & Wilson, 1994; Epps, 1989; Oliver & Brown, 1988; Pettigrew, 1991). In other words, cultural diversity has been conceptualized primarily as the diver…
Afrocentricity as an Alternative World View for Equality
An official goal of the social work profession is that of equality for all. However, social work's ability to achieve this goal is hampered by the Eurocentric world view, wherein reality is structured to emphasize fragmentation, conflict, and domination, which foster inequality. A better philosophical ''fit'' for social work is the Afrocentric world view. Its view of reality that underscores interdependency, collectivity, and spirituality places …
Disparities Between African-American Women and Men on Social Work Faculty
The study reported here addressed the effect of gender on the academic status of social work faculty of color by comparing the academic status of 264 African-American women and men on social work faculty. It found that a greater percentage of women than men held lower academic ranks, were not tenured, and had not been members of editorial boards of professional journals. The implications of this pattern of inequality are discussed
An Epistemological Perspective on Intelligence Assessment among African American Children
Intelligence assessment procedures fail to tap additional capabilities of African American children. One cause of this problem is the failure of conventional IQ tests to tap attributes of the African American epistemology. This shortcoming of IQ tests is a result of the cultural bias of the tests and of the heavy emphasis on left-hemisphere brain functions and skills. These tests, moreover, significantly omit functions and skills of the right bra…
Organizational Theory From an Afrocentric Perspective
Although possessing widely differing assumptions about organizational and human nature, organizational theories all have one thing in common: They reflect the conceptual frameworks of Western social science, which are derivatives of Western ideology and thought. By exclusively reflecting the values and notions of Western society, these theories are circumscribable and biased and omit different conceptualizations of human beings and society found …
Afrocentricity as an Alternative World View for Equality
An official goal of the social work profession is that of equality for all. However, social work's ability to achieve this goal is hampered by the Eurocentric world view, wherein reality is structured to emphasize fragmentation, conflict, and domination, which foster inequality. A better philosophical ''fit'' for social work is the Afrocentric world view. Its view of reality that underscores interdependency, collectivity, and spirituality places …
Cultural Alignment African American Male Youths and Violent Crime
Four theories-racial inferiority, culture of poverty, racial discrimination, and political economy-are usually advanced to explain violence among African Americans. These theories, however, fail to underscore the deleterious influence that cultural oppression and cultural alienation have on African Americans generally and African American male youths specifically. To examine the role both cultural oppression and cultural alienation play in the li…
Trayvon Martin
To address a critical gap in the social work literature, this article examines the deleterious effects of racial profiling as it pertains to police targeting of male African Americans. The authors use the Trayvon Martin court case to exemplify how racial profiling and black male stigma help perpetuate social inequality and injustice for black men. A racism-centered perspective is examined historically and contemporarily as a theoretical approach …
The Afrocentric paradigm in social work
The Afrocentric paradigm in social work is an important professional development towards rendering social work practice more culturally competent. Grounded in a critique of Eurocentric models of social science and social work practice, the paradigm draws heavily on the shared cultural values and practices of traditional Africa that have been articulated most poignantly in Cheikh Anta Diop's two cradle theory. The Afrocentric paradigm also relies …
Maggie Lena Walker and African American Community Development
One of the unsung heroines of the African American tradition of community development is Maggie Lena Walker. Walker was the first woman in the United States to establish a bank that still exists today. She also started a merchandise department store, operated a newspaper, and was a prominent leader in a major African American mutual aid organization—the Independent Order of St. Luke. This article discusses Walker’s community development contribut…
When White Boys Kill
The image of male youth homicide is primarily associated with young black males. However, recent school shootings in which multiple innocent victims were murdered indicate that young white males may be at serious risk of a much more tragic homicidal phenomenon known as multicide. This paper offers a conceptual framework to explain multicide and violence generally among young white males by employing an Afrocentric analysis. This analysis assumes …
Equality-of-oppressions and anti-discriminatory models in social work
Although the equality-of-oppressions paradigm in the USA and the anti-discriminatory framework in the UK are progressive steps in affirming the lives of many groups, they are limited in their ability to highlight the continued significance of racism in contemporary social work education. This comparative paper examines how universal frameworks of oppression in social work have helped to diminish the significance of racial oppression and begins by…
Racial Minorities Then and Now
It has been 27 years since the last special issue on racial minorities appeared in Social Work. When the issue appeared in 1982, Jerome Schiele was pursuing an undergraduate degree in sociology at Hampton University. June Gary Hopps was editor of the 1982 special issue and had by then distinguished herself as a social work educator, scholar, and administrator. This generational difference provides an opportunity to reflect on the evolution and st…
E. Franklin Frazier and the Interfacing of Black Sociology and Black Social Work
E. Franklin Frazier is known almost exclusively for his scholarly contributions after the publication of his seminal book, The Negro Family in the United States. Less is known about Frazier's professional life and scholarly contributions during the period when he was Director of the Atlanta School of Social Work between 1922 and 1927. Frazier was part of that generation of black scholars who benefited from the fluid interfacing of sociology and s…
Mutations of Eurocentric Domination and Their Implications for African American Resistance
An increasing observation by many social scientists is that the method through which European Americans maintain control over society's political, economic, and cultural institutions has mutated. Over the last 30 years or so, Eurocentric domination can be assumed to have mutated away from domination by repression/terror toward domination by seduction. This article discusses five sociopolitical trends through which this mutation has occurred and e…
Disparities Between African-American Women and Men on Social Work Faculty
The study reported here addressed the effect of gender on the academic status of social work faculty of color by comparing the academic status of 264 African-American women and men on social work faculty. It found that a greater percentage of women than men held lower academic ranks, were not tenured, and had not been members of editorial boards of professional journals. The implications of this pattern of inequality are discussed
An Epistemological Perspective on Intelligence Assessment among African American Children
Intelligence assessment procedures fail to tap additional capabilities of African American children. One cause of this problem is the failure of conventional IQ tests to tap attributes of the African American epistemology. This shortcoming of IQ tests is a result of the cultural bias of the tests and of the heavy emphasis on left-hemisphere brain functions and skills. These tests, moreover, significantly omit functions and skills of the right bra…
An Afrocentric Perspective on Social Welfare Philosophy and Policy
Although much of the literature on American social welfare philosophy and policy is progressive and sincere in its objectives to dismantle poverty and economic oppression, the literature is limited in two important areas: 1) identifying American social welfare philosophy and policy as primarily Eurocentric in its worldview, and 2) applying the cultural values of people of color as a conceptual base to advance and diversify views on social welfare…
Organizational Theory From an Afrocentric Perspective
Although possessing widely differing assumptions about organizational and human nature, organizational theories all have one thing in common: They reflect the conceptual frameworks of Western social science, which are derivatives of Western ideology and thought. By exclusively reflecting the values and notions of Western society, these theories are circumscribable and biased and omit different conceptualizations of human beings and society found …
An Epistemological Perspective on Intelligence Assessment among African American Children
Intelligence assessment procedures fail to tap additional capabilities of African American children. One cause of this problem is the failure of conventional IQ tests to tap attributes of the African American epistemology. This shortcoming of IQ tests is a result of the cultural bias of the tests and of the heavy emphasis on left-hemisphere brain functions and skills. These tests, moreover, significantly omit functions and skills of the right bra…
Disparities Between African-American Women and Men on Social Work Faculty
The study reported here addressed the effect of gender on the academic status of social work faculty of color by comparing the academic status of 264 African-American women and men on social work faculty. It found that a greater percentage of women than men held lower academic ranks, were not tenured, and had not been members of editorial boards of professional journals. The implications of this pattern of inequality are discussed
Afrocentricity
The concept of cultural diversity in higher education in the United States has been significantly restricted. Discussions and debates have focused primarily on enhancing the presence of students and faculty of color, with a special emphasis on recruitment and retention (Blackwell, 1987, 1988; Carter & Wilson, 1994; Epps, 1989; Oliver & Brown, 1988; Pettigrew, 1991). In other words, cultural diversity has been conceptualized primarily as the diver…
Afrocentricity as an Alternative World View for Equality
An official goal of the social work profession is that of equality for all. However, social work's ability to achieve this goal is hampered by the Eurocentric world view, wherein reality is structured to emphasize fragmentation, conflict, and domination, which foster inequality. A better philosophical ''fit'' for social work is the Afrocentric world view. Its view of reality that underscores interdependency, collectivity, and spirituality places …
The Contour and Meaning of Afrocentric Social Work
One of the consistent and disturbing features of my undergraduate and graduate training was the pervasiveness of academic theories that emerged from people who were not members of my cultural group. Regardless of the course, the textbooks used and theories discussed were almost exclusively written and developed by White people, especially White men. At first, I did not pay too much attention to this occurrence. However, as time went on and as I b…
An Afrocentric Perspective on Social Welfare Philosophy and Policy
Although much of the literature on American social welfare philosophy and policy is progressive and sincere in its objectives to dismantle poverty and economic oppression, the literature is limited in two important areas: 1) identifying American social welfare philosophy and policy as primarily Eurocentric in its worldview, and 2) applying the cultural values of people of color as a conceptual base to advance and diversify views on social welfare…
Cultural Alignment African American Male Youths and Violent Crime
Four theories-racial inferiority, culture of poverty, racial discrimination, and political economy-are usually advanced to explain violence among African Americans. These theories, however, fail to underscore the deleterious influence that cultural oppression and cultural alienation have on African Americans generally and African American male youths specifically. To examine the role both cultural oppression and cultural alienation play in the li…
E. Franklin Frazier and the Interfacing of Black Sociology and Black Social Work
E. Franklin Frazier is known almost exclusively for his scholarly contributions after the publication of his seminal book, The Negro Family in the United States. Less is known about Frazier's professional life and scholarly contributions during the period when he was Director of the Atlanta School of Social Work between 1922 and 1927. Frazier was part of that generation of black scholars who benefited from the fluid interfacing of sociology and s…
When White Boys Kill
The image of male youth homicide is primarily associated with young black males. However, recent school shootings in which multiple innocent victims were murdered indicate that young white males may be at serious risk of a much more tragic homicidal phenomenon known as multicide. This paper offers a conceptual framework to explain multicide and violence generally among young white males by employing an Afrocentric analysis. This analysis assumes …
Mutations of Eurocentric Domination and Their Implications for African American Resistance
An increasing observation by many social scientists is that the method through which European Americans maintain control over society's political, economic, and cultural institutions has mutated. Over the last 30 years or so, Eurocentric domination can be assumed to have mutated away from domination by repression/terror toward domination by seduction. This article discusses five sociopolitical trends through which this mutation has occurred and e…
Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm
Maggie Lena Walker and African American Community Development
One of the unsung heroines of the African American tradition of community development is Maggie Lena Walker. Walker was the first woman in the United States to establish a bank that still exists today. She also started a merchandise department store, operated a newspaper, and was a prominent leader in a major African American mutual aid organization—the Independent Order of St. Luke. This article discusses Walker’s community development contribut…
Cultural Oppression and the High-Risk Status of African Americans
One of the persistent and perennial challenges faced by African Americans is that of cultural oppression. Although the effects of oppression on African Americans have received enormous attention, much of the focus has been on political and economic oppression as the primary sources of the social problems that African Americans confront. Less emphasis has been placed on connecting political and economic oppression to cultural oppression and on vie…
Racial Minorities Then and Now
It has been 27 years since the last special issue on racial minorities appeared in Social Work. When the issue appeared in 1982, Jerome Schiele was pursuing an undergraduate degree in sociology at Hampton University. June Gary Hopps was editor of the 1982 special issue and had by then distinguished herself as a social work educator, scholar, and administrator. This generational difference provides an opportunity to reflect on the evolution and st…
Lessons From the Maafa
The culture of hip-hop and the legacy of some artists have received much criticism during the past two decades. At the center of that controversy is one artist who is never forgotten, for better or worse, Tupac Amaru Shakur. Although the legacy of Tupac looms large in urban centers around the world among the popular culture of youth, there has been little attention paid to him as a central figure in the professional literature. This article explo…
Equality-of-oppressions and anti-discriminatory models in social work
Although the equality-of-oppressions paradigm in the USA and the anti-discriminatory framework in the UK are progressive steps in affirming the lives of many groups, they are limited in their ability to highlight the continued significance of racism in contemporary social work education. This comparative paper examines how universal frameworks of oppression in social work have helped to diminish the significance of racial oppression and begins by…
Trayvon Martin
To address a critical gap in the social work literature, this article examines the deleterious effects of racial profiling as it pertains to police targeting of male African Americans. The authors use the Trayvon Martin court case to exemplify how racial profiling and black male stigma help perpetuate social inequality and injustice for black men. A racism-centered perspective is examined historically and contemporarily as a theoretical approach …
The Afrocentric paradigm in social work
The Afrocentric paradigm in social work is an important professional development towards rendering social work practice more culturally competent. Grounded in a critique of Eurocentric models of social science and social work practice, the paradigm draws heavily on the shared cultural values and practices of traditional Africa that have been articulated most poignantly in Cheikh Anta Diop's two cradle theory. The Afrocentric paradigm also relies …
Origins of Opportunity, Part 1
This paper marks the 50th anniversary of the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Minority Fellowship Program (MFP), exploring its historical development. Leveraging archival CSWE materials, it chronicles pivotal events from 1954 leading to the MFP’s inception in 1973 and its early research fellowship cohorts through 1978. This historical analysis examines the advocacy, challenges, and milestones within the CSWE and broader social movements …
The future of race, ethnicity, and culture in social work
Diversity and Its Discontents in Social Work
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