"Curiously uninvolved": social work and protest against the War in Vietnam. From: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: Chandler, Susan Kerr | COPYRIGHT 2004 Western Michigan University, School of Social Work. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This article reviews four leading social work journals from 1965-1975 for content on the War in Vietnam and the social issues arising from it. It finds that social work's major journals carried nearly no articles, letters, editorials, or short subjects related to the war and concludes that the dominant discourse constructed in the journals excluded meaningful engagement with the war or protest against it.

Key words: Vietnam War, peace, protest, anti-war movement, sixties...