'Race', Gender, Social Welfare Encounters in a Postcolonial Society

Name: 'Race', Gender, Social Welfare Encounters in a Postcolonial Society
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ISBN: 9780745622859

ISBN-10: 0745622852

ISBN-13: 9780745622859

Edition: 2000

Authors: Gail Lewis

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This book explores the relationship between 'race', gender and policy to develop an important and original argument about social welfare and racial formation in the late twentieth century.The book presents a layered and finely textured analysis of the issue of 'ethnic minority' women in professional social work in Britain. The analysis contextualizes their entry in terms of an understanding of the developing relationship between racial formation and its expression in local and central policy and policy-making. In the process, the author builds upon and greatly extends the current analyses of social policy and 'race' and gender. Using a skilful mix of theory, empirical research and…

Book details

List price: $31.25
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 8/22/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.00" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgements


List of Abbreviations


Preface


Introduction



Governing Racial Formation



Configuring the Terrain: Governmentality, Racialized Population and Social Work



Now You See It, Now You Don't: 'Race', Social Policy and the Blind Eye of Central Government



Sites of Condensation: Social Services and Racial Formation at the Local Level



'The Call of the Wild': Contestatory Professional Discourses on 'Race' and Ethnicity



Complex Acts Of Becoming: Working 'Race' And Gender



'Evidence of Things Not Seen': The Complexities of the 'Everyday' for Black Women Social Workers



Categories of Exclusion: 'Race' and Gender in the SSD



Situated Voice: 'Black Women's Experience' and Social Work


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index