Confronting Injustice and Oppression

By David G. Gil

Book Overview

How can injustice and oppression be overcome and prevented, regardless of who the victims are? What are the meanings, sources, and dynamics of these dehumanizing conditions? David Gil brings to these questions a lifetime of experience in social action and in social work practice and education. Writing for human services professionals, students, and activists, he sounds the call to embrace the core values of radical social work: equality, liberty, cooperation, and affirmation of community in pursuit of individual and social development. Gil identifies violence, unemployment, racism, and poverty as the chief injustices in society, and outlines the steps that must be taken in order to confront and abolish these through education and activism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231106734
• ISBN13: 9780231106733
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

a beautifully written book

David Gil writes beautifully on oppression in American society in a slim volume that should make a nice contribution to an academic course on oppression or simply for individuals who want to ponder American society and the kind of victim-blaming that seems ingrained in our Puritan heritage.