Full Description
This text offers a compendium of knowledge and perspectives from leading researchers dedicated to examining various forms of racism and their distinctions and impact on racial groups. Each chapter promotes both evidence and practice-based research that cultivates improvements in the daily lives of people affected by racism. The text also advocates for the facilitation of systemic change on the individual, organizational, community, and greater societal levels. With this advocacy perspective, the authors aim to advance community empowerment and advocacy to address and eliminate both racism and white supremacy. The authors identify the link between racism and social determinants of both physical/mental health and social well-being aiming to foster development of an anti-racist social work framework that promotes access to resources and opportunities that encompass transdisciplinary collaboration among the workforce.
From a historical perspective, the book also examines the link between historical racial oppression and its contemporary effects and counterparts within racialized economic injustice. In sum, the authors collectively promote both teaching and learning within social work education programs that place emphasis on examining structural inequalities and white privilege - as well as the impacts on individual and group outcomes. To combat this, the text calls upon all social workers to develop a policy agenda for eliminating racism and white supremacy at the institutional and organizational level where structural racism is rampant, evident, and causes the most damage among marginalized groups.
Contents
Introduction
Section I History, Racism, & Social Work Education
Chapter 1 The Meaning and Function of Race & Racism: A Conceptual Understanding
Chapter 2 Antiracism Social Work: History and the Challenge Ahead
Chapter 3 Using Personal-Professional Narratives as a Technique for Teaching
Chapter 4 Eradicating Racism: Social Work's Most Pressing Grand Challenge.
Section II Racism and Individual and Family Wellbeing
Chapter 5 Ending Racism: A Critical Perspective
Chapter 6 Ensure the Healthy Development for Youth: Expansions and Elaborations for Equity
Chapter 7 Ensuring Healthy Development for All Youth: Prevention Of Psychosis
Chapter 8 Closing the Health Gap: Addressing Racism, Settler Colonialism and White Supremacy
Chapter 9 Integrating AASW&SW's Grand Challenges of Productive Aging with Anti-Racism and Health Equity Lenses to Improve Population Health
Chapter 10 Racism and the Grand Challenge of Ending Family Violence Among Black Families
SECTION III Eliminating Racism through Strengthening the Social Fabric
Chapter 11 Beyond Colorism: The Impact of Racialization in U.S. Latinxs
Chapter 12 Confronting the History of Racism Against Asian Americans in the U.S.
Chapter 13 Strengthening the Social Responses to the Human Impacts of Environmental Change
Chapter 14 Race and Racism in the Homelessness Crisis in the United States: Historic Antecedents, Current Best Practices and Recommendations to End Racial Disparities in Housing and Homelessness
Chapter 15 Eradicating Social Isolation: Focus on Social Exclusion and Racism
Section IV Progressive Approaches to Eliminating Institutional, Social Policy, and Economic Racism
Chapter 16 Juvenile Justice for Achieving Equal Opportunity and Justice
Chapter 17 From Mass Incarceration to Smart Decarceration 561
Chapter 18 Reducing Racialized Barriers to School Success for All Children & Youth
Chapter 19 Reversing Extreme Inequality
Chapter 20 White Supremacy and American Social Policy: Implications for Racism-Centered Policy Practice
Chapter 21 Policy, Practice and Institutional Barriers to FCAB for All Related to Race (Racism) in the U.S.
