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This book uses critical race theory to examine key social policies. Chapters give primacy to addressing the experiences of African Americans in navigating systems that are flawed by structural racism and yet too often attribute individual pathology rather than systemic injustice to the worsening life circumstances they find themselves in.
List of contents
1. Race and Social Policy: Confronting Our Discomfort 2. The Intrapsychic Psychological Binds of Poverty and Race: The Intersection of Mind and Milieu 3. Banging on a Locked Door: The Persistent Role of Racial Discrimination in the Workplace 4. Tilted Images: Media Coverage and the Use of Critical Race Theory to Examine Social Equity Disparities for Blacks and Other People of Color 5. The Last Stages of Gentrification: Washington, DC, Mayoral Elections and Housing Advocacy 6. Education Policy and Outcomes Within the African American Population 7. We Treat Everybody the Same: Race Equity in Child Welfare 8. Game Changers: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of the Economic, Social, and Political Factors Impacting Black Fatherhood and Family Formation 9. Inequities in Family Quality of Life for African-American Families Raising Children with Disabilities 10. Justice Is Not Blind: Disproportionate Incarceration Rate of People of Color 11. The Task is Far from Completed: Double Jeopardy and Older African Americans 12. Racism and the Christian Church in America: Caught between the Knowledge of Good and Evil
About the author
Sandra Edmonds Crewe is Dean and Professor of Social Work at Howard University, USA. Her scholarship addresses social justice, and policy and program initiatives aimed at improving the quality of life for African Americans, especially older African Americans. Dr. Crewe has extensive practice experience in assisted and affordable housing.
Summary
This book uses critical race theory to examine key social policies. Chapters give primacy to addressing the experiences of African Americans in navigating systems that are flawed by structural racism and yet too often attribute individual pathology rather than systemic injustice to the worsening life circumstances they find themselves in.
