Beyond Lip Service: Bringing Racial Justice to Black and Brown Communities - Paperback

by Anna Maria Santiago (Editor), Kelly Patterson (Editor), Robert Mark Silverman (Editor)

This book underscores the importance of moving beyond lip service or hollow platitudes to mobilize and expand the capacity of social justice movements to foster policy change and incubate new programs at the local, state, and federal levels. It was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Community Practice.

Author Biography

Anna Maria Santiago is Professor in the College of Social Science at Michigan State University, USA. Her research focuses on community development, the geography of opportunity, financial capability and asset building, and neighborhood effects on child health and well-being in Latinx, African American and immigrant communities.

Kelly Patterson is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo, USA. Her research focuses on subsidized housing, racial segregation, fair housing advocacy, social policy, and social service access/delivery.

Robert Mark Silverman is Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo, USA. His research focuses on community development, community-based organizations, education reform, and inequality in inner-city housing markets.