Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice examines the twin forces of oppression and injustice and how social policies, cultural institutions, and prevailing ideologies promote or sustain them. Using an internationally informed perspective, it unpacks concepts such as internalization of oppression, injustice, restorative justice, social exclusion, empowerment, and critical consciousness. Since publication of the first edition of the book, sweeping changes related to the market economy, immigration, wars in the Middle East, and political leadership have taken place in the United States and beyond. Authors van Wormer, Kaplan, and Juby have updated this respected text to ensure relevancy and bring focus to new issues and perspectives while also enhancing areas covered in the first edition.


About the Authors

Katherine Stuart van Wormer, PhD, MSSW, is professor of social work at the University of Northern Iowa. She was actively involved in the civil rights movements in the United States and Northern Ireland, and is author or co-author of numerous books, including The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South.

Laura Kaplan, PhD, LCSW, is an associate professor at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) in Cedar Falls. She has an extensive background in working personally and professionally with issues of oppression and advocacy for human rights on macro, mezzo, and micro levels. She recently completed service as a Diversity Fellow at UNI and is a volunteer consultant with social work schools and programs in Tanzania.

Cindy Juby, PhD, MSSW, is associate professor of social work at the University of Northern Iowa. She has published research in the wake of an illegal immigration raid in Postville, IA, and successfully advocated against disproportionate treatment of children in the Waterloo, IA, school district.


Endorsement

"I enjoyed reading this book. It is a treasure house of information and will provide students with a firm foundation to working in anti-oppressive and empowering ways. It examines the difficulties of implementing noble ideals in practice, and so it should enable students to have a pragmatic, but theoretically grounded approach to working to eliminate social exclusion and marginality in their practice. It is an impressive revision of the first edition." —Lena Dominelli, Professor, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University
 

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