From the Editor: ‘Why are All the Kids Black and All the Staff White?’: Anti-racism Work in Child Welfare

Introduction: Transforming Child Welfare through Anti-Racist Approaches

Approaches from Related Fields to Integrate Anti-racist Initiatives into Child Welfare
Anita P. Barbee, Andrew M. Winters and Emma M. Sterrett-Hong

Racial Disproportionality and Disparity in Child Welfare: A Problem With ‘Bias’ in the Research
Reiko Boyd

Investing in Families through Economic Supports: An Anti-racist Approach to Supporting Families and Reducing Child Welfare Involvement
Alexandra Citrin, Megan Martin and Clare Anderson

Beyond Human-centered Design: The Promise of Antiracist Community-centered Approaches in Child Welfare Program and Policy Design
Sonya Soni, Jessica Mason and Jermeen Sherman

‘Our Agency Doesn’t Like to Use the Word Racism Let Alone Talk about It’: Firsthand Stories of Workplace Racism in Child Welfare
Sreyashi Chakravarty and Catherine K. Lawrence

‘They Don’t Understand Us and are Afraid of Us’: Black Social Workers’ Perspectives on the Role of Anti-Blackness within Foster Care Service Provision to Black Children
Dominique Mikell Montgomery

Aunties, Uncles, Me Maws, and Play Cousins: Exploring Trends in Formal Kinship Care for Black Families in Texas
Sherri Y. Simmons-Horton, Tanya N. Rollins, Richard Harris and Ashley Blackmore