Assignment task:
Watch the video: Steve Earle -- "Mississippi, It's Time" Southern Poverty Law Center.
a) Identify and describe the example of discrimination and oppression that you have observed.
b) Discuss how this practice impacts human rights and social and economic justice for a vulnerable population group. Is this practice primarily based in stigma, denial of economic opportunity, social isolation, etc.?
c) Describe a social work intervention or approach that you would apply to advance this goal. Provide a definition of the approach and a specific example of how you would apply it.
d) Discuss how your intervention/advocacy might improve the experience of this group in society and might benefit society as a whole.