Chapter objectives To consider the impact of race and racism on BME people involved in social work in Wales. To examine racism and anti-racism in social work education. To suggest useful practices in developing anti-racist social work in Wales. Introduction When discussing BME people in Wales, it is important to recognise this ‘community’ is made up of a vast, culturally diverse, rich, uniquely distinguishable set of individuals and so we do not claim to speak for all of them. The ideas for this chapter come from our personal experiences
17 ONE Rethinking anti-racist social work in a neoliberal age Gurnam Singh In this chapter Singh looks back at the development of anti-racist social work and traces the intellectual journey it has been through over the last 20 years. The Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) domain 8 requires social workers to be aware of the changing contexts within which social work takes place, and social work and social care organizations operate and function. The chapter looks back at the recent history of anti-racist social work and ‘sets the scene’ for many of
207 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 3 • no 2 • 207–20 • © Policy Press 2015 • #CRSW Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204986015X14286590888439 article Anti-racist social work in a ‘post-race society’? Interrogating the amorphous ‘other’ Sweta Rajan-Rankin, sweta.rajan-rankin@brunel.ac.uk Brunel University London, UK Anti-racist social work is at a crossroads: while on the one hand, racial binaries such as black/white, us/other and slave/master can be useful political tools to understand institutional racism
85 FIVE antisemitism and anti-racist social work Barrie Levine When the history of anti-racism in social work is examined, there is a notable gap: a developed analysis of one of the oldest ‘racisms’ – antisemitism. In this chapter Levine explores why this omission has occurred and locates opposition to antisemitism within the wider social work anti-racist discourse. In doing so the chapter examines the nature of antisemitism today in the UK and internationally. In addressing these issues, the chapter will further explore the fundamental debate surrounding
59 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 2 • no 1 • 59–76 • © Policy Press 2014 • #CRSW Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204986014X13912564145645 article ‘Everyone is blaming us!’1 Conceptualising current anti-Roma racism in Europe and its necessary implications for anti-racist social work Špela Humljan Urh,2 Germany, spela.h.urh@gmail.com Racism was and has remained a key determining element of the life experiences and life chances of Roma people all around Europe. The author provides some examples of current and
99 SIX Practice teachers and anti-racist social work practice The previous two chapters have revealed the extent to which students were dependent on the support of their practice teachers while on placement, particularly in relation to developing and implementing CCETSW’s anti-racist requirements. The evidence, however, revealed that only a minority of students felt that their practice teachers were receptive and sympathetic to anti-racist developments. Most others were not confident that practice teachers had the knowledge, awareness or understanding to
regressive, and perhaps suggests a colour-mute ( Pollock, 2004 ) and race-evasive approach ( Chang-Bacon, 2022 ). Finally, the authors take up the challenge posed by Williams and Bernard (2018) , seeking to understand from social workers’ perspectives how their qualifying social work and their ASYE programmes in England prepared them for contemporary anti-racist social work. Recommendations for improving teaching around anti-racist practice are made, alongside a call for social work educators to enhance their teaching of anti-racism through ‘race intentionality’ which
53 THREE The catalysers: ‘black’ professionals and the anti-racist movement Charlotte Williams In this chapter Williams looks at the strategies for implementing anti-racist practice. In the 1980s the anti-racist social work movement argued that effective anti-racist practice would also require the significant recruitment of black and Asian workers who could challenge practice on the frontline and change the culture of social work organisations. Williams revisits some of the early debates of the 1980s and traces the history of the anti-racist social work
1 INTRODUCTION Race, racism and social work Michael Lavalette and Laura Penketh This book explores issues of ‘race’, racism and anti-racist social work practice – with a particular focus on modern Britain. The dominant message from the media and politicians regarding social work is that it is dominated by ‘political correctness’ and focuses disproportionately on issues of class, ‘race’ and gender. In the training of social workers there is too much emphasis on what one Conservative minister in the 1990s termed ‘isms’ and ‘ologies’ (Castle 1992). This view
