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

List of Abbreviations.

Preface.

Introduction.

PART 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.

PART 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 Voice: ‘Black Women’s Experience’ and Social Work.

Conclusion.

Notes.

References.

Index.