Racism and Racial Identity:
Reflections on Urban Practice in Mental Health and Social Services
An important new work from the
Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services.

Edited by: Lisa Blitz, PhD, LCSW and Mary Pender Greene, LCSW-R, ACSW

Racism and Racial Identity examines the emotional and psychological impact of racism, culture and identity within the context of racism and racial identity in treatment.

This book captures the insights and struggles of social work practitioners joined together in their efforts to rid the mental health and social services field of embedded bias and racism.

Contributors: Mary Pender Greene, Alan B. Siskind, Warren C. Lyons, Anderson J. Franklin, Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Shalonda Kelly, Barbara L. Edwards, Dadrene Hine-St. Hilaire, Pia Hargrove, Janet A. Geller, Jacqueline Miller, Patricia Churchill, Kathleen McGlade, Joseph Ackerman, Lisa V. Blitz, Linda C. Illidge, Caroline Peacock, George Daniels, Libbe H. Madsen, Benjamin G. Kohl, Jr., Eileen P. McGann, Rene T. Chapman, Lesley Samuel-Young.

Hardcover: 279 pages
Publisher: Haworth Press; 1st edition (December 7, 2006)
ISBN-10: 0789031086

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Praise for Racism and Racial Identity:

"This volume is a must-read for all people in the mental health field... The authors ... do an outstanding job of exploring racism from many angles with clinical vignettes that take their theory home. It is thoughtful, well-written and magnificently provocative."
— Monica McGoldrick, LCSW

"At last, a book that acknowledges racism, oppression and social injustice as the ‘elephant in room’ that must be identified and removed in order to appropriately and effectively provide mental health services to anyone, particularly people of color. This book will offer mental health professionals, social service providers, educators and anyone seeking sound information for working in urban settings, useful tools for navigating a difficult terrain – tools essential to helping us to heal others as well as ourselves."
— Joy DeGruy Leary, PhD

"A thoughtful and useful treatment of racial issues: it is a needed work for – and from – people who are frontline service providers. This book will be a valuable resource to many professionals."
— Robert T. Carter, PhD