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
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John Cotton Dana Library
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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
Social Work Speaks
- Social Work Speaks: National Association of Social Workers Policy Statements: 2021-2023.
- 12th edition. Washington, D.C., 2021.
- Statements designed to guide policy advocacy and legal action. Each statement includes background information, a statement of issues, the policy statement, its legislative history, and a list of references. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Social Work Speaks: NASW Policy Statements 2024-2027
- National Association of Social Workers, 2025. Available?
- NASW Advocacy.
- National Association of Social Workers key current legislative issues and positions.
What Do People Think?
- iPoll
- A compilation of over 500,000 questions from public opinion polls from 1935 to the present. Limited to polls of the U.S. population at the national level.Restricted Access
New Jersey Poll
- Eagleton Poll Archive
- Survey results and questionnaires from the quarterly Rutgers Eagleton Institute's survey of New Jersey residents on questions of political and social interest from 1971 to the present.
Legislation
- Congress.gov
- The website for U.S. federal legislative information. Track bills through Congressional committees; see committee reports; texts of bills as enacted.
- CQ Almanac
- Narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that the U.S. Congress considered during a congressional session between 1945 and 2020. Policy Tracker feature allows you to explore a specific policy topic (e.g., "Abortion and Family Planning;" "Bilingual Education and ESL;" "Homelessness;" etc.,) over time. Rutgers-restricted Access
Public Policy
- The Dark Side of Reform: Exploring the Impact of Public Policy on Racial Equity
- Tyrell Connor, editor. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2022. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Mexicans and the Future of the American Dream: Trump, Immigration and Border Relations
- Maria Regina Martínez Casas, Magdalena Barros, and Georgina Rojas García. New York, Routledge, 2023. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Immigration Debate: Politics, Ideologies of Anti-Immigration Forces. June 17, 2005.
- Tom Barry. An Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC) Americas Program Special Report.
- Race, Poverty and Public Policy
- Mary Jo Bane. March 2005
- Quadagno, Jill. "Race and American Social Policy," National Forum 76(3), Summer 1996, 35-38. Restricted Access
- Padilla, Yolanda C. "Immigrant Policy: Issues for Social Work Practice," Social Work 42(6), November 1997, 595-606. Rutgers-restricted Access