SOCW 6305 - Social Work Research

This course guide serves as a starting point for research for students taking SOCW 6305.

Getting Started

This page is a collection of selected scholarly and popular sources to support research and teaching about racism, oppression, and social injustice in social work and other social sciences. If you have any recommended resources relevant to social work research to add to this page, please contact me.

Tips for Research

To find research articles and resources on antiracism within the library databases:

1. Start with developing keywords around the topic. Example keywords and search terms:

racism
discrimination
bias
racially biased
systematic racism

white privilege
white fragility
racialized identity
intersectionality
anti-racism

anti-colonial
racial privilege
racial violence
racism and the united states
white flight

2. Then, using the search strategies detailed on the course guide, combine some of your terms to form a search query. For example: systemic racism AND anti-Blackness

3. Use the UH Libraries search or select one of the recommended databases on the scholarly sources page of the social work research guide to find research materials.

Find Sources - For Background, History, and Framing the Issues

Race Relations Abstracts
Discover articles covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press from 1990, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.

SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers scholarly publications in sociology, social work, and related fields. Contains 2.3 million articles and other materials (64% in full text) with deep coverage from 1960 and some back to 1882.

America: History and Life
America: History and Life provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present with over 2,000 journals including all key English-language historical journals. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.
GenderWatch
Search articles from journals, etc. that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas such as the women's movement, men's studies, the transgender community and the changes in gender roles.
Black Studies Center
Black Studies Center combines current and historical resources for research and teaching in Black studies including Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, HistoryMakers interviews with contemporary African Americans, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender covering 1910-1975, ProQuest Dissertations for Black Studies from 1970-2004, and Black Literature Index covering 1827-1940. This fully cross-searchable gateway to Black studies includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.
Chicano Database
A comprehensive bibliographic index representing all types of material for information about Mexican-American topics and the only specialized database for and about Chicanos. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature.

Antiracism in Social Work

Antiracism for Social Workers and Therapists | Social Work Center
A roundup of free anti-racism webinars on-demand, as well as a few resources for people of color such as racial wound healing and therapy/funds dedicated to POC, and many recommended anti-racism books, articles, toolkits, YouTube videos, movies/TV shows, podcasts and self-care resources for all.
A Beginner's Guide to Antiracist Social Work
This guide was created by current students and graduates of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. The materials were curated by the Latino Alumni Advisory Board and the USC Latinx Social Work Caucus.
Resources Related to Antiracism Social Justice and Action
A list of web based training, workshops, webinars and books from the Michigan State University School of Social Work Racial and Social Justice Collaborative.
Trauma-Informed Care Resources
Resources, readings, and information on trauma-informed care from Trauma Informed LA, which was created to foster resilient communities that promote healing and well-being through collaboration, education, and community engagement.

Decolonizing Social Work

"Decolonization can be seen as a continuation of social work’s advocacy on social justice and of progressive elements within the profession that challenge hegemonic forms of practice" (Gray, C. (2016). Decolonizing Social Work. In Decolonizing Social Work. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315576206)

"Social workers need to understand the history and current issues created by colonization to work effectively with people who have been colonized" (Tamburro, A. Including Decolonization in Social Work Education and Practice, Journal of Indigenous Social Development, Volume 2, Issue 1, September 2013)

(Re)generation: Indigenous Social Welfare Caucus of the School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
Developed by Indigenous social welfare graduate students and supported by the faculty and staff of the School of Social Welfare and the American Indian Graduate Program (AIGP)
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society solicits any work purposefully engaged in the decolonization process, regardless of discipline or field, encouraging work that actively seeks undisciplinary connections that work both against and beyond the Western academy.
Indigenous Social Welfare Research Guide
This guide to resources was created in collaboration with members of (Re)generation: Indigenous Social Welfare Caucus of the School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley. It includes recommended books, journals, databases and research methods.
Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice
Intersectionalities is a peer-reviewed, open access journal sponsored by Memorial University's School of Social Work. The journal is international in scope, and publishes articles relating to social work analysis, research, polity, and practice.
Journal of Indigenous Research
This Journal was created in response to community requests for information about research that has been conducted among their people. The focus of this publication is to obtain articles about research conducted with Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian, Maori populations- written for laypeople - and approximately 1500-2000 words.