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Brown School DEI Faculty Syllabus Support Guide

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.
Media