Abstract
Throughout American history, race, minority issues, and inequity of treatment have affected every area of human life. Child welfare systems and the demographic makeup of the systems’ participants are influenced by these issues and much of our current literature focuses on African-American/Black communities and their disproportionate representation in human services and criminal justice systems. Other minority groups have also experienced both disproportionate representation and disparate treatment in child welfare systems, including Native Americans, Latinos/Hispanics, and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders (AAPI). The scope of child welfare concerns makes a clear case for cooperative efforts between child welfare providers and researchers to provide additional studies of the dynamics that contribute to disproportionality and unequal policy implementation, as well as practices in child welfare service delivery for minority children as a whole and African Americans in particular.
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