Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation

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ABSTRACT: Sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation is recognized as a form of violence involving the disproportionate over representation of African American adults and children living in poverty-stricken urban areas in the United States. In this chapter, the Afrocentric intergenerational perspective, a strength-based, oppression-sensitive framework,is utilized to examine the historical, structural, and individual dynamics that influence the lives of African American victim/survivors. The core assumptions and values of the framework are outlined as an assessment tool for social workers in addressing trauma-specific risks and protective sources experienced by African American families at risk for involvement in the sex trafficking industry and promoting culturally responsive practice and policy at all levels of intervention and prevention. Recommendations for social work practice, policy, and social change affecting the lives of at-risk African American families are included.

Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949-1975

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With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal’s African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The backdrop was Portugal’s increasingly embattled Estado Novo regime, and its attendant use of the players as propaganda to communicate the supposed unity of the metropole and the colonies.