 Now, what in the world does it mean to decolonize social work? I think we all know what it means to decolonize India, right? We know what it means to decolonize a country that was formerly a colony. What does it mean to decolonize social work? What she is saying is that my entire field is colonized. It's colonized by what she would call white supremacy. This idea that the white culture is dictating how we should treat people in society.