Human Diversity
This guide focuses on resources you can use to find information on diversity and vulnerable populations in the context of social work practice.
Subject Guide
Natalie Borisovets
Contact:
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John Cotton Dana Library
Newark, N.J. 07102
John Cotton Dana Library
Newark, N.J. 07102
Subjects: American Studies, Communication, Criminal Justice, History - Global & Eurasian, History - North America, Journalism & Media Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Literatures in English, New Jerseyana, Political Science, Social Work, Spanish & Portuguese Studies, Women's & Gender Studies
Who Are We?
- Working toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
- David R. Roediger. New York, Basic Books, 2005. Rutgers-restricted Access
- The Making of White American Identity
- Ron Eyerman. New York, Oxford University Press, 2022. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
- Claire Jean Kim. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2023. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Inventing Latinos: A New Story of AmericanRacism
- Laura E. Gomez. New York, New Press, 2022. Rutgers-restricted Access
- How Race Counts for Hispanic Americans
- John R. Logan. University of Albany, Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research. 2003
- "This report classifies Hispanics into three categories: Hispanic Hispanics, black Hispanics, and white Hispanics. Results find substantial differences among these Hispanic racial groups."
- Early Adolescents' Ethnic-Racial Identity in Relation to Longitudinal Growth in Perspective Taking
- Nathan A. Jorgensen, et.al., Developmental Psychology 61(1), January 2025, pp. 105-112 "This study offers important evidence that Latine, Black, and multiracial youth who explore and find more clarity in their sense of ERI [Ethnic-Racial Identity] earlier in adolescence also show higher initial levels of perspective taking, which remains high across adolescence." Rutgers-restricted Access
- "Ethnic Identity of Transethnically Adopted Hispanic Adolescents"
- Estela Andujo. Social Work 33(6), November/December 1988, pp.531-535.
- Rutgers-restricted Access
- Reenvisioning Ethnic–Racial Identity: Asian Indian American Experiences
- Arpana G. Inman, Pratyusha Tummala-Narra, and Harris Cooper. The American Psychologist 79(9), December 2024, pp. 1385-1398. Rutgers-restricted Access
- "Ethical Considerations in Social Work Research with Multiracial Individuals"
- Kelly F. Jackson. Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics 7(1), 2010.
- "The growing presence and visibility of multiracial persons in the US demands that social work researchers critically examine and understand the complexity of identity as it applies to people who identify with more than one race."