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Includes bibliographical references.

What are oppression and anti-oppression? -- Thinking critically about what we know and how we know it -- Thinking critically about power and politics -- Whiteness: what it is and why we have to understand it -- Isms and intersectionality part one: racism and sexism -- Isms and intersectionality part two: heterosexism and cissexism, ableism, and sanism -- From colonization to decolonization -- Problem of poverty, class, capital, and the social order -- Doing anti-oppression: the social work dream -- Without service users' theory there is no anti-oppression -- How to do anti-oppression with individuals, families, and communities -- How to do anti-oppression at organizational and policy levels -- Where to from here: innovations and hopes for the future.