Book Review: ‘Race’, Gender, Social Welfare: Encounters in a Postcolonial Society

Abstract

The result is an important contribution to the literature that draws on feminist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic and social constructionist perspectives to develop an argument about processes of racial formation."--Jacket. pt. I. Governing Racial Formation. 1. Configuring the Terrain: Governmentality, Racialized Population and Social Work. 2. Now you see it, Now you don't: 'Race', Social Policy and the Blind Eye of Central Government. 3. Sites of Condensation: Social Services and Racial Formation at the Local Level. 4. 'The Call of the Wild': Contestatory Professional Discourses on 'Race' and Ethnicity -- pt. II. Complex Acts of Becoming: Working 'Race' and Gender. 5. 'Evidence of Things Not Seen': The Complexities of the 'Everyday' for Black Women Social Workers. 6. Categories of Exclusion: 'Race' and Gender in the SSD. 7. Situated Voices: 'Black Women's Experience' and Social Work.