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Racial Equity Recommended Reading

Systemic Racism in U.S.: Scaffolding as Social Construction by Johnnie Hamilton-Mason, MSW, PhD
Just Practice, 4th Edition by Janet Finn
Black Pain by Terrie Williams, MSW
Post-Traumatic Slavery Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy
Under the Skin by Linda Villarrosa
Sum of Us by Heather McGee
The Black Social Work Movement in America 2010 by Reid Merritt
Moral Distress and Injury in Human Services by Frederic Reamer, PhD
South Asians in the United States by Shreya Bhandari
The Abolitionist’s Handbook by Patrisse Cullors
Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society, 2nd ed., Edited by Richard P Barth, Jill Theresa Messing, Trina R. Shanks, and James Herbert Williams
Dynamics of Racism in Social Work Practice (1973) by James Goodman
You Are Your Best Thing by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown
How People Get Power by Si Kahn
Social Work and the Black Experience by Elmer P. Martin and Joanne Mitchell Martin
Ethnicity & Race: Critical Concepts in Social Work by Carolyn Jacobs, Dorcas Bowles
Reenvisioning Therapy with Women of Color by Lani V. Jones
Understanding Power: An Imperative for Human Services by E. Pinderhughes, V. Jackson, P. Romney
Women of Color as Social Work Educators by Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi, Saundra Hardin Starks, Carmen Ortiz Hendricks
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW
Multicultural Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity and Identity
White Benevolence: Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions edited by Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean, and Verna St. Deni
Spirituality and the Black Helping Tradition by Elmer P. Martin and Joanne M. Martin
Reflections on the American Social Welfare State: The Papers of James Dumpson
African American Leadership by Iris Carlton LaNey
Reducing Inequality by Bruce Jansson
Making Black Lives Matter: Confronting Anti-Black Racism by Kevin Cokley
Prejudice and Racism by JM Jones, 1997
Racism Without Racists: Color Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 5th edition, 2018
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States Dunbar-Ortiz
Race in America - USA Today, 2022
The Destruction of American Indian Families by Steven Unger, Association of American Indian Affairs, 1977
The State of America’s Children, 2021 - Children’s Defense Fund

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