SCHOLARSHIP HIGHLIGHT: RACIAL & SOCIAL JUSTICE

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Featured Publications: 32

Featured Center: 32

Featured Presentations 33-34

Featured Products: 34-35

Featured Research Story: 35-37 alexander, e. (2022). As they see it: Black women’s conceptualizations of professional socialization in education graduate programs. Race Ethnicity and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.20 22.2106880 alexander, e. (2022). Healing ourselves through Black mothers’ wisdom. In T. M. Kress & R. Lake (Eds.) Radically dreaming: Illuminating Freirean Praxis in Turbulent Times. DIO Press. alexander, e. (2022). Locating themselves: Black womxn’s geographies of professional socialization. Research in Education Policy and Management, 4(2) 80-98. https://doi.org/10.46303/ repam.2022.8 [Open Access]

Banda, L. & Carlson, J. (2022). Malawi’s marriage law (2015) and constitutional amendment (2017): Analysis of policy solutions to increase girls’ rights. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 49(4). https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol49/iss4/2

Casey, E. A., Hoxmeier, J. C., Willey-Sthapit, C., & Carlson, J. (2022). Psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The role of men’s gender-related attitudes, employment and housework, and demographic characteristics. International Journal of Mens Social and Community Health, 5(2), e5e17. https://doi.org/10.22374/ijmsch.v5i2.79 [Open Access]

Cheng, S., Wachter, K., Kappas, A., Brown, M.L., Messing, J.T., Bagwell-Gray, M., & Jiwatram- Negron, T. (2022). Patterns of help-seeking strategies in response to intimate partner violence: A latent class analysis. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(9-10), NP6604-NP6632. https://doi. org/10.1177/0886260520966671

Jeong, M., Jen, S., Kang, H., Riquino, M.R., & Goldberg, J. (2022). Representations of older adults in COVID-related newspaper articles: A comparison between the perspectives of older and younger adults. Journal of Aging Studies, 63, 101081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2022.101081

Nguyen, V.L., Riquino, M.R., Reese, S.E., & Molloy, J. (2022). An exploration of racial and ethnic disparities at the point of arrest from the perspectives of Youth of Color. Youth Voice Journal, ISSN (online): 2056-2969.

Featured Center

Exciting things are happening in the KU School of Social Welfare’s Toni Johnson Center for Racial and Social Justice. The center’s leaders are collaborating with colleagues throughout the school to re-imagine the catalytic role the center can play in fostering groundbreaking work in Kansas, the nation and the world focused on achieving justice and equity. They’ve brought in energetic new faculty affiliates, each engaged in innovative research in diverse areas of racial and social justice. And they are fueled by social welfare students, eager to make a difference, who are seeking out opportunities to join in research and take part in field practicums focused on racial and social justice.

Wright, K., Akin, B.A., Byers, K., McCall, S., & Alford, D., Parker, A., Clark, S., Shaw-Woody, N., Kline, M., Brown, N., Hill, E., Davis-Myers, S., Parham, W., Rush, R. (2022). Using institutional analysis to examine the systemic sources of racial disproportionality and disparity: A case example. Child Welfare, 100(2), 99-136.

Featured Presentations

Adams, E., J., Deer, S., Holder, M., & Ramirez, L. (2022, Oct. 6). Educate & act civic engagement in 2022 part XII: What you should know about the Indian Child Welfare Act [Virtual]. The Commons, Toni Johnson Center for Racial and Social Justice, KU Center for Service Learning, and the KU Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Akin, B. A., Dupree, S., McCall, S., Naemi-Jimenez, P., Fry, A., Smith, A., Turner, B., & Wright, K. (2022, Oct. 6). Collaborating in courageous conversations to transform child welfare toward racial equity [Virtual]. 2022 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare, Denver, CO.

Anderson, E. & Beason, J., Holder, M., (Moderator) (2022, Sept. 30). Intergenerational trauma & federal boarding schools [Virtual]. Boarding School Series, University of Kansas, KU Native American Initiatives, KU Native Faculty and Staff Council, and Toni Johnson Center for Racial and Social Justice, School of Social Welfare, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, KS.

Bagwell-Gray, M. & Jen, S. (2022, Jan. 16). I’m not pussyfooting around… Whos got time for that anymore? A research poem of time lost and time left in healing from intimate partner violence. Society for Social Work Research 26th Annual Conference “Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice,” Washington, DC.

Bagwell-Gray, M., Steiner, J., Wachter, K., Mathis, C., Kappas Mazzia, A., Johnson-Agbakwu, C., & Messing, J. (2022, Jan. 15). Perceptions of college men engaged in men’s engagement programs on masculinities and gender norms. Society for Social Work Research 26th Annual Conference “Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice,” Washington, DC.

Bagwell-Gray, M., Steiner, J., Wachter, K., Mathis, C., Kappas Mazzio, A., Johnson-Agbakwu, C., & Messing, J. (2022, Jan. 16). Trauma-informed sexual health care among survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence in refugee resettlement contexts: A scoping review. Society for Social Work Research 26th Annual Conference “Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice,” Washington, DC.

Barber, C., Jen, S., Mitchell, B., & Willey-Sthapit, C. (2022, Jan. 15). Discourse of ageism, racism, and gender during the COVID-19 pandemic: Critical discourse analysis roundtable. Society for Social Work Research 26th Annual Conference “Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice,” Washington, DC.

Casey, E., Willey-Sthapit, C., Carlson, J., & Hoxmeier, J. (2022, Jan. 13). Patterns of gender equitable attitudes and behaviors among men: Relationships with violence perpetration. Society for Social Work Research 26th Annual Conference “Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice,” Washington, DC.

Dupree, S., Fry, A., & Akin, B. A. (2022, Aug. 22). Courageous conversations: Launching a learning aeries on racial disparities in child welfare. National Association of Counsel for Children, 45th National Child Welfare Law Conference: Bridging Theory to Practice: Learning & Unlearning to Drive Effective Advocacy, Baltimore, MD

Jeong, M., Kang, H., Riquino, M.R., & Goldberg, J. (2022, Jan. 14). Representations of older adults in COVID-related newspaper coverages: A comparison of perspectives between older adults and young adults. Society for Social Work Research 26th Annual Conference “Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice,” Washington, DC.

Kang, J. (2022, Dec.). Climate change and social work. Invited Presentation for Future Career in Social Work Webinar hosted by the Department of Social Welfare at Seoul National University.

Koenig, T. L., Nardi, P., Williams, M., Tersalvi, G., Cloyd, A., & Hudson, J. (2022). Life changing journeys: Perilous travel from Africa to Italy [Panel Presentation]. Digital Humanities Symposium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Sattler, P. (2022, Jan. 15). An ethic of care: A narrative case study of criminal investigations in one southwestern police department. Society for Social Work Research 26th Annual Conference “Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice,” Washington, DC.

Sattler, P., Roebuck, B., & Clayton, A. (2022, Jan. 13). Posttraumatic change: Respecting the narratives of victims and survivors of Violence. Society for Social Work Research 26th Annual Conference “Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice,” Washington, DC.

Turner, B., & Naemi Jimenez, P. (2022, Oct. 7). Courageous conversations: Launching a learning series on racial disparities in child welfare [Roundtable discussion]. 2022 Michael Tilford Conference on Diversity and Multiculturalism, Topeka, KS.

Whiteman, D., Holder, M. (Moderator). (2022, Oct. 13). Indian boarding school legacies: Healing in our communities. Boarding School Series, University of Kansas, KU Native American Initiatives, KU Native Faculty and Staff Council, and Toni Johnson Center for Racial and Social Justice, School of Social Welfare, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, KS.

Wright, K., Akin, B.A., Byers, K., McCall, S., Alford, D., & Clark, S. (2022, Jan. 16). Discrimination, disproportionality, and disparity: Black families experiences of structural and systematic bias in child welfare. Society for Social Work Research 26th Annual Conference “Social Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice,” Washington, DC.

Wright, K., Akin, B.A., Byers, K., Clark, S., & Carr, K. & McCall, S. (2022, Nov. 11). Shaping anti-oppressive frameworks and detailing the creating of an anti-racist research model. Council on Social Work Education 68th Annual Program Meeting “Leading Critical Conversations: Human Rights are Global Rights,” Anaheim, CA.

Koenig, T.L. (2022). Digital Humanities African refugee project [Public dissemination]. https://xd.adobe.com/view/86df1b12-f5b5-457f-898f-1c90e6708430-d38c/?fullscreen

FEATURED PRODUCTS (CONT.)

Holder, M. (2022, April 21). From historical trauma and oppression to cultural resurgence. SW 573 Intergenerational & historical trauma [Academic product/professional education]. University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare, Lawrence, KS.

Davis, L., Starr, R., Taylor, G., Carlson, J., Lewis, M. (2022, Oct. 20). Grand Challenges for Social Work: Build healthy relationships to end violence [Academic product/professional education]. University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, Center for Community Engagement & Collaboration.

Koenig, T.L. (2022). Italy study abroad brochure for social work [Academic product/professional education]. University of Kansas School of Social Welfare

Levy, M. & Fairman, M. (2022). Opening the door to learning how to connect with our Two-Spirit community [Public dissemination]. Spirit-Honor-Inclusion, Issue 9.

(2022, Feb). Racial Equity Learning Journey Series [Virtual, conference/workshop].

(2022, April). Racial Equity Collaborative Symposium [Conference/workshop]. University of Kansas.