Resources
Organizations and Websites
African-American Redress Network
CASW Code of Ethics, Values and Guiding Principles 2024
Color of Change
Global Survivors Fund
Grand Challenges for Social Work
Human Rights Watch
Movement for Black Lives
National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC)
National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants (NAASD)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association of Black Social Workers
National Black Cultural Information Trust
National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America
Nation of Islam
Reparation Education Project
The American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) Advocacy Foundation
The Institute of the Black World 21st Century
United Nations General Assembly
University of Massachusetts Amhers
Books
Berry, M. F. (2005). My face is black is true: Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations. Vintage Books.
Brooks, R. L. (2004). Atonement and forgiveness: A new model for Black reparations. University of California Press.
Brophy, A. (2006). Reparations: Pro&con. Oxford.
Darity, W. A. & Mullen, A. K. (2020). From here to equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the twenty-first century. The University of North Carolina Press.
DeGruy Leary, J. (2005). Post traumatic slavery syndrome. Uptone Press.
Franke, K. (2019). Repair: Redeeming the promise of abolition. Haymarket Books.
Howard, K. (2020). Laying the foundation for local reparations: A guide for providing national symmetry for local reparations efforts. Independently published.
Martin, M., & Yaquinto, M. (2007). Redress for historical injustices in the United States: On reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, and their legacies. Duke University Press.
Williams, E. (2021). Capitalism and slavery (3rd ed.). The University of North Carolina Press.
Robinson, R. (2000). The debt: What America owes to Blacks. Plume.
Shepherd, V. A., & Hemmings, G. D. L. (2022). Introduction to reparation for secondary schools. The University of West Indies.
Taifa, N. (2022). Reparations on fire: How and why it’s spreading across America. House of Songhay II.
Taiwo, O. O. (2022). Reconsidering reparations. Oxford University Press.
Winbush, R. A. (2010). Should America pay? Slavery and the raging debate on reparations. HarperCollins Publishers.
Social Work Articles
Androff, D. (2022). A U.S. truth and reconciliation commission: Social work’s role in racial healing. Social Work, 67(3), 239-248. Link.
Androff, D. (2010). Truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs): An international human rights intervention and its connection to social work. British Journal of Social Work, 40(6), 1960-1977. Link.
Bridgeman, P. A., & Kemp, D. (2017) Reparations as a key to reconciliation with communities of slavery descent: A matter of social justice. North American Association of Christians in Social Work. Link.
Canadian Association for Social Work Education. (2023). Reconciliation as a school of social work. Link.
Este, D., & Walmsley, C. (2022, October). Reparations for social workers of African descent a study with recommendations. Link.
Jones, V. N. (2025). All the DEI and still no reparation: Transformative justice and the de-centering of diversity, equity, and inclusion. International Journal of Africana Studies, 23(1-2). Link.
Jones, V. N., & McElderry, C. Reparations. (2024). Encyclopedia of Social Work. Link.
Jones, V. N., McNary, M. L., & Abdur-Rahman, R. (2022). Advancing anti-racist strategies in child advocacy. Critical Social Work, 23(2), 2-21. Link.
Jones, V. N., & McElderry, C. G. (2021). Social work and reparations: Applying a restorative justice approach. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work. Link.
Jones, V. N., McElderry, C. G., & Conner, L. R. (2021). Social workers’ attitudes toward reparations for descendants of chattel slavery. Journal of Social Work, 22(4),1-25. Link.
Jones, V. N., McElderry, C. G., McNary, M. L., Dotson, C. L., & Frazier, K. (2023). Social work advocacy for Black reparations. Social Work & Policy Studies: Social Justice, Practice and Theory, 6(1), 25-28. Link.
McElderry, C. G., & Jones, V. N. (2021). Ending our silence: Promoting H.R. 40 to study slavery and institutionalized racism. Advances in Social Work, 21(4), 1246-1260. Link.
McElderry, C. G., Jones, V. N., & Conner, L. (2026). Social work students’ attitudes and knowledge of reparations for African American descendants of chattel slavery, Social Sciences, 15(1), 1-24. Link
Social Service Workers United-Chicago. (Jul 13, 2020). The NASW is failing us. Either it changes, or we will change it ourselves. Medium. Link.
van Wormer, K. (2014, June 8). Reparations for African American survivors of Jim Crow? Psychology Today. Link.
van Wormer, K. (2009). Restorative justice as social justice for victims of gendered violence: A standpoint feminist perspective. Social Work, 54(2), 107-116.
Videos
A Blueprint for Reparations in the United States
Advancing Reparatory Justice in Social Work: A Call to Action
Episode 24 – “Reparations & the History and Resurgence of DC N’COBRA”
Episode 181: Reparations NOW!
In Class with Carr, Ep. 108: The Case for Reparations (Part 1)
In Class with Carr, Ep. 275: Parades of Harm, Principles of Repair
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò discusses “Reconsidering Reparations”
Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Motley Delivers Speech Concerning Reparations
Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century
Reparations. Is it finally time?
Reparation Information Thought Series: Comprehensive Reparations
Reparation Information Thought Series – Reparations & the Role Social Workers
Reparation Information Thought Series: “Shaping Narratives: Spotlight on Reparation Book Authors“
Reparation Information Thought Series “Weaponization of Race in Reparations & How to Combat it”
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Reparations Are Not Just About Slavery But Also Centuries of Theft & Racial Terror
Who owes reparations? The Federal government.
Legislation
African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission
H.R.40-Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act
New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies
S.40-Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act
Senate Bill S1163A
The California Reparations Report
Urging the establishment of a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
Contact Your Legislators
Contact the U.S. President to establish by executive order a federal commission to study and develop proposals for reparations, H.R. 40.
Contact Your U.S. House Representative to establish by executive order a federal commission to study and develop proposals for reparations, H.R. 40.