Social Work and the Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism

In the current era, the ongoing challenge of race and ethnic relations and growing white supremacy reminds us that the centrality of racism needs considerable attention and has us profoundly questioning the structure and functioning of institutional practices. In Social Work and the Grand Challenge of Ending Racism, the authors argue that racism has been somewhat short shifted as an avenue of inquiry to help explain social problems and social welfare outcomes within the social work profession, and within the greater society. This book promotes innovative ways of preventing or interrupting racism and to stress the development and proliferation of antiracism practices as a method of reducing racialized outcomes in society.

Martell Teasley, PhD, MSW, Dean of the College of Social Work at the University of Utah, and President of the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work.
Michael S. Spencer, PhD, MSSW, University of Washington (UW) Presidential Term Professor in Social Work and the Director of Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Oceanic Affairs at the UW Indigenous Wellness Research Institute.
Melissa Bartholomew, JD, MDiv, MSW, Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging and Instructor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School.

Introduction
Section I History, Racism, and Social Work Education
Chapter 1 The Meaning and Function of Race and 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 AASWandSW'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 and 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.