Beyond Lip Service: Bringing Racial Justice to Black and Brown Communities - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032415428 ISBN 13: 9781032415420

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This book underscores the importance of moving beyond lip service or hollow platitudes to mobilize and expand the capacity of social justice movements to foster policy change and incubate new programs at the local, state, and federal levels.

In the wake of global protests spurred by acts of police brutality in the United States, present-day problematic policing and racial injustice in Black and Brown communities surged to the forefront of political discourse in recent years. Institutionalized backlash politics, which emerged during the post-Civil Rights era, perpetuated and further exacerbated generations-long racial disparities and stymied systemic change. This edited volume describes pilot programs and community-based initiatives that show promise as tools for equity and racial justice in Black and Brown communities.

This book will be of great value to scholars and academics interested in racism, justice, community development and social work. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Community Practice.

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About the Author

Anna Maria Santiago is Professor in the College of Social Science at Michigan State University, USA. Her research focuses on community development, the geography of opportunity, financial capability and asset building, and neighborhood effects on child health and well-being in Latinx, African American and immigrant communities.

Kelly Patterson is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo, USA. Her research focuses on subsidized housing, racial segregation, fair housing advocacy, social policy, and social service access/delivery.

Robert Mark Silverman is Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo, USA. His research focuses on community development, community-based organizations, education reform, and inequality in inner-city housing markets.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032415428
• ISBN 13: 9781032415420
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 130
• Editor: Santiago Anna Maria, Patterson Kelly, Silverman Robert Mark