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Brown School DEI Faculty Syllabus Support Guide

Provided below are resources on pivotal moments, and the intricate interplay of policies that impact our collective history.

Scholarly articles
  • Berger, L. M., & Slack, K. S. (2020). The contemporary US child welfare system (s): Overview and key challenges. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 692(1), 7-25.
  • Bird, M. (2016). Social justice advocacy in the belly of the beast: An illustration of policy change for social work. Affilia, 31(2), 257-262.
  • Brownson, R. C., Chriqui, J. F., & Stamatakis, K. A. (2009). Understanding evidence-based public health policy. American journal of public health, 99(9), 1576-1583.
  • Caulkins, J.P., Kasunic, A., Kleiman, M., & Lee, M.A. (2014). Understanding drug legalization. International Public Health Journal, 6(3), 283- 294
  • Eversman, M. H., & Bird, J. D. (2016). Moral panic and social justice: A guide for analyzing social problems. Social Work, 1-8.
  • Feagin, J., & Bennefield, Z. (2014). Systemic racism and US health care. Social science & medicine, 103, 7-14.
  • Godfrey, E. B., & Wolf, S. (2016). Developing critical consciousness or justifying the system? A qualitative analysis of attributions for poverty and wealth among low-income racial/ethnic minority and immigrant women. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 22, 93-103.
  • Krcek, T. E. (2013). Deconstructing disability and neurodiversity: Controversial issues for autism and implications for social work. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 24(1), 4-22.
  • Rehm, J., Foxcroft, D., Medina-Mora, M. E., Reuter, P., Rossow, I., Caulkins, J., Obot, I., Room, R., Strang, J., Fischer, B., Humphreys, K., & Babor, T. F. (2018). Drug policy and control at the international level. (). Oxford University Press.
Books
  • Darrow, J. H. (2015). The politics and implementation of US refugee resettlement policy: A street-level analysis. The University of Chicago. (also see Global and International)
  • D’Cruz, H. (2012). Social Welfare Policy: Regulation and Resistance among People of Color.
  • Desmond, M. (2016). Evicted: Poverty and profit in the American city. New York: Crown.
  • Jimenez, J., Pasztor, E. M., Chambers, R. M., & Fujii, C. P. (2014). Social policy and social change: Toward the creation of social and economic justice. Sage Publications.
  • Johnson-Motoyama, M., Berrick, J. D., & Eastman, A. L. (2021). CHILD WELFARE POLICY. Social Policy for Children and Families: A Risk and Resilience Perspective, 63.
  • Schneider, A. L., & Ingram, H. M. (Eds.). (2005). Deserving and entitled: Social constructions and public policy. Suny Press.
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