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Black Families Suffering with Child Welfare: Anti-Black Racism, Bi-Power and Governmentality
From: Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work
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This chapter examines how the child welfare system impacts black families and breaks down why black children are overrepresented in care. The rise of the welfare state, anti-Black racism, and bio-power and governmentality are discussed.
Contributors
Doret Phillips
Donna Baines is the director and a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia. She is editor of Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice, co-editor (with Stephen McBride) of Orchestrating Austerity and co-author of Case Critical. Her research and teaching interests include anti-oppressive theory and practice, paid and unpaid care work and social justice change.
Gordon Pon
Bindi Bennett is a Gamilaraay cisgender mother, researcher and social worker. She is an associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Bond University. She has over twenty years’ practice experience in the fields of Aboriginal social work, child and adolescent mental health, schools and health.