In the wake of global protests spurred by acts of police brutality in the United States,the Journal of Community Practice is seeking paper proposals for empirical, theoretical, and practice-based articles for a special issue examining racial justice in Black and Brown communities. Racial justice goes beyond paying lip service to disparities. Instead, it entails institutional changes aimed at addressing them. Addressing disparities undergirds four of the 12 Grand Challenges articulated by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare: closing the health gap; promoting smart decarceration; reducing extreme economic inequality; and achieving equal opportunity and justice.
Abstracts should be labeled
FOR SPECIAL ISSUE –BRINGING RACIAL JUSTICE for consideration by the special issue editors. Abstracts should clearly identify how the paper is linked to the special issue theme, provide background and purpose, data and methods of analysis, results and key conclusions and implications.
Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words and submitted by email to jcp@acosa.org by August 3, 2020. The Guest Editors will provide abstract dispositions by August 17, 2020.
Editor information
Kelly L. Patterson, University at Buffalo
Anna Maria Santiago, Michigan State University
Robert M. Silverman, University at Buffalo