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{"title":"Bursting bubbles: outcomes of an intergroup contact intervention within the context of a community based violence intervention program","authors":"Christopher St. Vil, Kwasi Boaitey","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2021.1997851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2021.1997851","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Intergroup contact theory has received much quantitative support. However few efforts have attempted to apply qualitative methodologies to understand the perceptions of individuals who experience these contacts. we conducted 19 interviews to explore the perceptions of stakeholders of a community-based fitness program whose goal was to increase intergroup contact among its stakeholders. Participants reflected on the program reducing their social isolation, increasing opportunities for engagement outside one’s own group, and expanded world views.","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46882808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can preference policies advance racial justice?","authors":"Amie Thurber, Lisa K. Bates, Susan E. Halverson","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2021.1992557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2021.1992557","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mitigating the harms of gentrification to communities of color is a pressing challenge. One promising approach is preference policies that enable long-term residents to remain in or return to gentrifying neighborhoods. This mixed-methods study evaluates the City of Portland’s “Preference Policy,” which provides targeted affordable rental housing to residents displaced from a historically Black neighborhood. This paper draws on survey, interview, and focus group data to explore resident motivations, changes to well-being, and recommendations for improving the policy. Findings suggest preference policies can enhance well-being, and underscore the need for comprehensive strategies to advance racial justice in gentrifying neighborhoods.","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42482457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The enduring backlash against racial justice in the United States: mobilizing strategies for institutional change","authors":"K. Patterson, A. Santiago, R. Silverman","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2021.1998875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2021.1998875","url":null,"abstract":"This essay offers a framework for contextualizing racial injustice in contemporary Black and Brown communities. We argue that present-day racial injustice in the United States is a continuation of historical patterns of discrimination that have been institutionalized and reaffirmed for centuries (Gordon-Reed, 2021). At the same time, we underscore how racism and racial injustice have assumed distinctive forms during the post-civil rights era. While the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960s represented a watershed moment in our history, it also triggered sustained backlash from opponents to racial justice in the United States (Glickman, 2020). This legislation and opposition during the post-civil rights era is significant because of the scope and magnitude of the policies adopted, as well as resistance to them. Legislation such as the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act have been flashpoints for resistance (Boussac, 2021; Rieder, 1989). From its inception, opponents worked feverishly to dismantle these legislative acts which were encapsulated under the umbrella of the War on Poverty. Largely, their efforts have resulted in the curtailment and reversal of civil rights policies. It is notable that this opposition was built on a foundation of sustained discourse drawing from right-wing ideologies supporting racism and oppression, racial microaggressions, stereotypes and tropes mobilized to block the implementation of civil rights policies, and reconstructed color lines in the United States (Boussac, 2021; Rieder, 1989). We offer this framework as a reference point for contextualizing the articles in this special issue on racial justice in Black and Brown communities. As the title of the special issue suggests, this framework is introduced in order to move beyond paying lip service to the topics covered in these articles. Understanding how racial discourse has been used (and misused) by opponents of civil rights is critical. We argue that opposition to civil rights legislation emerged as an organizing principle of the political right in the United States during the early 1960s. Although overlooked, this shift in political strategy is arguably one of the more successful policy agendas implemented during the contemporary period. Political conservatives, who constitute the","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44857706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The struggle for justice in communities continues","authors":"A. Santiago, Richard J. Smith","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2021.2008708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2021.2008708","url":null,"abstract":"As of December 31, 2021, Richard J. Smith and I who currently serve as the editors of the Journal of Community Practice (JCP) will hand over our ScholarOne editor log in passwords to a new editorial team and free up some space in our respective Dropbox folders. While these mundane digital exercises might evoke an abrupt discontinuity, our inner reality shaped by critical consciousness tells us that the struggle for justice in communities continues and both of us will remain active in advancing efforts in that struggle. When we assumed the editorial responsibility for the journal in January of 2018, little did we know how tumultuous the next four years would be for communities across the globe. Nor did we envision how important journals like JCP would be in amplifying community scholarship in pursuit of social, economic, ecological and racial justice. If we have learned anything from the past two years with the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that the work of bringing justice to communities will perdure into the foreseeable future. We would like to thank the Association for Community Organization and Social Action (ACOSA), the organizational sponsor of the journal, for allowing us to steward JCP for four short years. When Professor Marie Weil founded the journal, she not only wanted it to be a place to publish about community practice but also to serve as a developmental journal – a space for emerging scholars to write with and about communities. We are grateful that we could continue to extend this vision. When we began our editorship four years ago, we identified a series of goals for the journal. First, we wanted to restructure the Editorial Board to reflect the interdisciplinary and international characteristics of our readership and the larger field of macro practice. Intentionality and extending the invitation were key elements to facilitating those changes. The 32 members of the current Editorial Board reflect the disciplinary, methodological, theoretical and geographic diversity of community practice. We thank all of our Editorial Board members across the globe who graciously accepted the invitation to serve the journal during our editorship. Your expertise and service contributed significantly to the growth and visibility of the journal. Given that JCP prides itself as an interdisciplinary journal grounded in social work, our second goal was to expand our interdisciplinary pool of manuscript reviewers, particularly in areas of emerging interest in the field of community practice and to reviewers familiar with communities or populations new to JCP. During our tenure, we added an additional 300 new JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PRACTICE 2021, VOL. 29, NO. 4, 329–333 https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2021.2008708","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44616476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward authentic university-community engagement","authors":"Mark G. Chupp, A. Fletcher, James P. Graulty","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2021.1992556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2021.1992556","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT University-community engagement (UCE) tends to be unequal, yielding greater benefits to the university. This creates mistrust, particularly between the university and African American neighborhoods. We propose a model of authentic UCE that builds reciprocity and trust between members of the community and university and increases their capacity to collaboratively problem solve. Through experiential learning, participants confront implicit biases, and develop empathy and stamina to confront systemic racism. Through five training workshops and action circles, participants developed strategies for using their learning to address real-life issues. Lessons learned from this model might be instructive for other universities seeking more authentic UCE.","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49361682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond community policing: centering community development in efforts to improve safety in Latinx immigrant communities","authors":"Willow Lung-Amam, Nohely Alvarez, R. Green","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2021.1997850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2021.1997850","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent uprisings have led to calls to defund police and invest in Black and Brown communities. This article explores the lessons learned about community safety from a four-year effort to reduce crime and improve safety in a predominately Latinx suburb of Washington, DC. It shows that programs that invested in building trust and rapport between police and community had little impact. Alternatively, efforts that built community, resourced and engaged residents, and invested in neighborhood infrastructure were more effective. The case highlights the critical role of community-based organizations in helping residents imagine and execute programs that improve community safety without relying on police.","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45859041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From the archives: the African American community’s challenge to social work in 1971","authors":"P. Stuart","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2021.2013721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2021.2013721","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This “From the Archives” article provides the text of Billy J. Tidwell’s article, ”The Black Community’s Challenge to Social Work,” which was published in the Journal of Education for Social Work, vol. 7, no. 3 (Fall 1971).","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42742091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Minority Political Leadership Institute: a model for developing racial equity leadership","authors":"Nakeina E. Douglas-Glenn, Shabana Shaheen, Elizabeth P. Marlowe, Kiara S. Faulks","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2021.1994503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2021.1994503","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Building leadership capacity centered on the interests and needs of racial and ethnic minoritized communities is critical and complex. This exploratory qualitative case study examined the Minority Political Leadership Institute and its novel approach to developing racial equity leaders in a community context. The findings outline the effective strategies used to engage participants and communities and provide insight into the lessons learned in program design and delivery.","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42373899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From the archives: the Los Angeles riot study","authors":"P. Stuart","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2021.2010508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2021.2010508","url":null,"abstract":"The 1960s was a consequential decade for race relations in the United States. At mid-decade, it seemed that the long struggle to achieve the goal of racial integration would soon be achieved. Congress enacted a series of federal civil rights laws that ended de jure racial segregation and promised to achieve the major goals of the “second reconstruction” – the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Yet less than a week after the signing of the Voting Rights Act, a riot broke out in South Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts, following the arrest of a 21-year-old African American driver, Marquette Frye, for suspected drunk driving. Like the Harlem Riots of 1964, which followed the police shooting of 15-year-old Jerome Powell, the Watts Riots differed from many earlier “race riots.” While “race-related collective violence is a recurrent, periodic theme in American history,” riots in the first half of the 20 century “were characterized by violent interracial clashes between blacks and whites, usually initiated by whites” while the disorders of the 1960s “featured clashes between blacks and law enforcement officials” (Lipsky & Olson, 1977, p. 37). Many argued that the riot, now called by some an uprising, reflected frustration at the continuing challenges of police brutality and segregation during a period of superficial progress. Years later, Frye, who had resisted arrest, told a reporter, “All I knew that day is that I was tired of being treated bad by a policeman” (Szymanski, 1990, para. 15). Immediately after the riot, the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) initiated the Los Angeles Riot Study (LARS). The study, funded by a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, was staffed by faculty members from a variety of social science disciplines. Nathan E. Cohen, a national social work leader who had joined the faculty of the UCLA School of Social Welfare in 1964, served as study coordinator. The Institute of Government and Public Affairs issued a preliminary report in 1967; the final report was issued five years after the riot (N. Cohen, 1970), after more than 300 other American cities had experienced serious riots (Lipsky & Olson, 1977, p. 10).","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43123747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Data justice: social work and a more just future","authors":"Lauri Goldkind, Lea Wolf, W. LaMendola","doi":"10.1080/10705422.2021.1984354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2021.1984354","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As new forms of data proliferate, data are increasingly used as a tool to determine access to resources, levels of sanction, and vulnerability to surveillance. Although the use of data to implement systematically biased policy is not new, the contemporary primacy of data across core institutions imposes disproportionate harms on already marginalized communities. Activist-proposed conceptual frameworks informed by the notion of data justice provide a basis to operationalize human rights in an evolving technoculture. This article urges social workers to recognize new data driven forms of inequality across individual, organizational, and community levels of practice, offering concrete examples of data harms and of just data practices that embody transparency, accountability, nondiscrimination, dignity, and participation.","PeriodicalId":46385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42829264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}