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Ann Marie Garran,Joshua Miller,Lisa Werkmeister Rozas,Hye-Kyung Kang

Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions

Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions

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A comprehensive book on racism for human service students and professionals, addressing all forms of racism from historical, theoretical, institutional, interpersonal, and professional perspectives. The third edition includes new scholarship on the perpetually changing contours of racism and strategies to confront it, fulfilling NASW and CSWE cultural competency requirements.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 20 December 2021
Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc


This book is a comprehensive resource for human service students and professionals, covering all forms of racism from historical, theoretical, institutional, interpersonal, and professional perspectives. It discusses how racism can be addressed in clinical, communal, and organizational contexts and provides socially just practices to help professionals from any discipline fulfill NASW and CSWE cultural competency requirements. Using coloniality and other critical theories as a conceptual framework, the text analyzes all levels of racism, including structural, personal, interpersonal, professional, and cultural. It features the contributions of a new team of authors and scholars, new conceptual and theoretical material, a new chapter on immigration racism, updated content to reflect how racism and white supremacy are manifested today, expanded sections on slavery, current political manifestations of racism, and much more.

The new edition offers in-depth multilevel complex exploration and includes varied perspectives that will be meaningful for anyone involved in human services. Readers appreciate the book's sensitive, complex, and multidimensional approach to this difficult topic. The purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.

New to the Third Edition:

Integrates the perspectives and insights of two new expert authors.

Includes a new chapter on the root causes for the increased flow of migrants, displaced people, and refugees and the impact of racism on their lives; and discusses the risks and challenges associated with their integration into society.

Expanded coverage of the impact of racism on economics, technology, and environmental degradation.

Greater emphasis on the intersectionality of racism and other forms of oppression.

Updated content to reflect recent developments and trends in the field of human services.


Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780826185563
Edition number: 3 Revised edition

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