Resources

Organizations and Websites

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 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 (3^rd 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

Jones, V. N., & McElderry, C. Reparations. (2024). Encyclopedia of Social Work. Link to summary.

Canadian Association for Social Work Education. (2023). Reconciliation as a school of social work. 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.

Androff, D. (2022). A U.S. truth and reconciliation commission: Social work’s role in racial healing. Social Work, 67(3), 239-248. Link.

Este, D., & Walmsley, C. (2022, October). Reparations for social workers of African descent a study with recommendations. 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.

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.

Social Service Workers United-Chicago. (Jul 13, 2020). The NASW is failing us. Either it changes, or we will change it ourselves. Medium. 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.

van Wormer, K. (2014, June 8). Reparations for African American survivors of Jim Crow? Psychology Today. 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.

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

Advancing Reparatory Justice in Social Work: A Call to Action

Reparation Information Thought Series – Reparations & the Role of Social Workers

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)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò discusses “Reconsidering Reparations”

Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century

Reparations. Is it finally time?

Reparation Information Thought Series: Comprehensive Reparations

Reparation Information Thought Series: “Shaping Narratives: Spotlight on Reparation Book Authors“

Reparation Info 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.