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This section delves into the multifaceted dimensions of whiteness and privilege within the context of social work and public health, with the aim of fostering a nuanced understanding that empowers educators and professionals to engage in reflective practice and cultivate inclusive and equitable environments.
Scholarly articles
- Alang, S., Hardeman, R., Karbeah, J. M., Akosionu, O., McGuire, C., Abdi, H., & McAlpine, D. (2021). White supremacy and the core functions of public health. American journal of public health, 111(5), 815-819.
- Alang, S., McAlpine, D., McCreedy, E., & Hardeman, R. (2017). Police brutality and black health: setting the agenda for public health scholars. American journal of public health, 107(5), 662-665.
- Calvo, R., & Bradley, S. (2021). The good, the bad, and the ugly: Lessons learned dismantling white supremacy in a school of social work. Advances in Social Work, 21(2/3), 920-933.
- Cousins, S. J., & Matias, C. E. (2023). Toward critically analyzing whiteness in immigrant health. Health Education & Behavior, 50(4), 493-499.
- Crudup, C., Fike, C., & McLoone, C. (2021). De-centering whiteness through revisualizing theory in social work education, practice, and scholarship. Advances in Social Work, 21(2/3), 654-671.
- Duhaney, P., & El-Lahib, Y. (2021). The politics of resistance from within: Dismantling white supremacy in social work classrooms. Advances in Social Work, 21(2/3), 421-437.
- Frey, W. R., Ward, L. M., Weiss, A., & Cogburn, C. D. (2022). Digital White racial socialization: Social media and the case of whiteness. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 32(3), 919-937.
- Ortega-Williams, A., & McLane-Davison, D. (2021). Wringing out the “whitewash”: Confronting the hegemonic epistemologies of social work canons (Disrupting the reproduction of white normative). Advances in Social Work, 21(2/3), 566-587.
- Privilege, W. I. W. UNDERSTANDING WHITE PRIVILEGE.
- Vanidestine, T., & Aparicio, E. M. (2019). How social welfare and health professionals understand “race,” racism, and whiteness: A social justice approach to grounded theory. Social work in public health, 34(5), 430-443.
Books
- Alexander, M. (2011). The new Jim Crow. Ohio St. J. Crim. L., 9, 7.
- DiAngelo, R. (2018). White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism. Beacon Press. Also see Equity, Diversity, and Anti-Racism in Practice
- Kendall, F. (2012). Understanding white privilege: Creating pathways to authentic relationships across race. Routledge.
- Kivel, P. (2017). Uprooting racism: How white people can work for racial justice. New Society Publisher.
- Saad, L. F (2020). Me and white supremacy: combat racism, change the world and become a good ancestor. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks. Also see Equity, Diversity, and Anti-Racism in Practice
- Steele, C. M. (2011). Whistling Vivaldi: How stereotypes affect us and what we can do. WW Norton & Company.
- Zuberi, T., & Bonilla-Silva, E. (Eds.). (2008). White logic, white methods: Racism and methodology. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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