Racism in the United States

The only comprehensive book on racism for human service students and professionals, this book addresses all forms of racism from a historical, theoretical, institutional, interpersonal, and professional perspective. This text discusses how racism can be dealt with in clinical, communal, and organizational contexts. The third edition encompasses a wealth of vital new scholarship on the perpetually changing contours of racism and strategies to confront it. Fulfilling NASW and CSWE cultural competency requirements, this book teaches socially just practices to helping professionals from any discipline. Using coloniality and other critical theories as a conceptual framework, the text analyzes all levels of racism: 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 and updated content to reflect how racism and white supremacy are manifested today. It also includes new content on the impact of racism on economics, technology, and environmental degradation; expanded sections on slavery; current political manifestations of racism, and much more. The new edition provides 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.