Beyond Lip Service: Bringing Racial Justice to Black and Brown Communities
Guest Editors: Kelly L. Patterson, Anna Maria Santiago, Robert M. Silverman
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.
Paper proposals are solicited that provide a comprehensive understanding of this topic which focuses on how institutional relationships contribute to inequality. A critical perspective questions modern societal structures, values, beliefs and ways of life, and pays particular attention to the socioeconomic and political structures of both community and society.
Abstracts and manuscripts 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.
Final manuscripts should be submitted online by October 30, 2020.
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