Dark Side of Reform - Exploring the Impact of Public Policy on Racial Equity

The Dark Side of Reform contains nine chapters on the development of social policies with the potential to advance racial equity. The volume also offers recommendations for implementing policies that address the unique concerns of structurally disadvantaged communities-with particular emphasis on Black and Latinx people.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Introduction: Advancing Racial Equity Through Public Policy
Daphne M. Penn and Tyrell Connor
Chapter 1 - The Gun Control Debate and Its Policy Implications for Reducing Firearm Violence in Communities of Color
Daniel Semenza and Brian Wade
Chapter 2 - Policing is Punishment: Defunding the Police as Sentencing Reform
Jalila Jefferson Bullock and Jelani Jefferson Exum
Chapter 3 - Four Racial Justice Principles for Policy Response to Carceral Technology
Emily Tucker
Chapter 4 - Marijuana Legalization
Angela S. Murolo
Chapter 5 - American Dream into Nightmare: Immigration, Systemic Structural Racism and Health Inequity in the United States
Jay Pearson
Chapter 6 - #StopAsianHate: Examining Rising Levels of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes in the United States
Janice A. Iwama
Chapter 7 - Complexity and Possibility: Black Public Opinion on Immigration
Niambi M. Carter
Chapter 8 - Legacy of Good Trouble: The Next Frontier for Voting Rights
Candice C. Robinson, LaTeri McFadden, and J Nicole Johnson
Chapter 9 - Searching for a Racial Justice Agenda in High Poverty Settings: How Title I Reform's Data Blindness Limits its Educational Effectiveness for Black and Latinx Students
Charisse Southwell and Michael Hudson-Vassell
Conclusion
Tyrell Connor and Daphne M. Penn

About the author

Edited by Tyrell Connor and Daphne M. Penn - By Niambi Carter; Tyrell Connor; Michael Hudson-Vassell; Janice A. Iwama; J. Nicole Johnson; Jalila Jefferson-Bullock; Jelani Jefferson Exum; LaTeri McFadden; Angela S. Murolo; Jay Pearson; Daphne M. Penn; Cand

Product details

• Authors: Niambi Carter, Tyrell Connor, Jelani Jefferson Exum, Michael Hudson-Vassell, Janice A Iwama, Janice A. Iwama, Jelani Jefferson Exum, Jalila Jefferson-Bullock, J Nicole Johnson, J. Nicole Johnson, LaTeri McFadden, Angela S Murolo, Angela S. Murolo, Jay Pearson, Daphne M Penn, Daphne M. Penn, Candice C Robinson, Candice C. Robinson, Daniel Semenza, Charisse Southwell, Emily Tucker, Brian Wade, Wade Brian
• Assisted by: Tyrell Connor (Editor), Daphne M Penn (Editor), Daphne M. Penn (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2022
• EAN: 9781793643759
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-375-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic groups & multicultural studies, Social discrimination & inequality, Social discrimination & equal treatment, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations