Race and ethnicity collection for Juneteenth

In the United States, June 19 marks Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, a holiday celebrating the 1865 emancipation of those who had been enslaved. Over 150 later we are still dealing with the impacts of slavery and colonialism in the form of racism and systemic injustice.

This collection of articles explores the many forms of racism in our society today and how we can work to create a fairer and more just world. Read it for free throughout June and July. 

Critical and Radical Social Work
Theorising anti-racism in health and social care
Esme Choonara

Boys to men: the cost of ‘adultification’ in safeguarding responses to Black boys
Jahnine Davis and Nicholas Marsh

Neoliberalism, 'race' and child welfare
Derek Kirton

‘Disordering’ the world: Frantz Fanon’s contribution to social work’s understanding of decolonisation
Paul Michael Garrett

Echoes of Frantz Fanon in the place and space of an alternative black mental health centre
Mick McKeown and John Wainwright

Emotions and Society 
Emotional micro bases of social inequality: emotional energy, emotional domination and charismatic solidarity
Randall Collins

European Journal of Politics and Gender
Women in white supremacist extremism
Kathleen Blee

Under different umbrellas: intersectionality and alliances in US feminist politics
Myra Marx Ferree

Unpacking intersectional solidarity: dimensions of power in coalitions
Rossella Ciccia and Conny Roggeband 

Taking bread off the table: race, gender, resources and political ambition in Brazil
Kristin Wylie

Families, Relationships and Societies
Decolonising research with black communities: developing equitable and ethical relationships between academic and community stakeholders
Sadie Goddard-Durant, Jane Ann Sieunarine and Andrea Doucet 

Global Discourse
Fear and the importance of race-based data in COVID-19 policy implementation
Leland Harper

International Journal of Care and Caring
The legal protection of women migrant domestic workers from the Philippines and Sri Lanka: an intersectional rights-based approach
Sophie Henderson

Journal of Gender-Based Violence
“I didn’t think this service was for people like us”: improving service response to BME survivors of sexual violence
Mariana Cancoro de Matos and Clare McFeely

Journal of Psychosocial Studies
Laplanche and the anti-racist unconscious, rewriting seduction, listening to the noise
Bogdan Popa

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
Gender, ethnicity and activism: 'the miracle is when we don't give up...'
Anna Daróczi et al. 

Identity, representation and the 'acceptable face' of equalities policy making in Britain
Asif Afridi

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