{"product_id":"race-racism-and-social-work-9781447307082","title":"Race Racism and Social Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLavalette and Penketh reveal that racism towards Britain's ethnic minority groups has undergone a process of change and affirm the importance of social work to address issues of race' and racism in education and training, presenting a critical review of a demanding aspect of social work practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"contains much of what a social worker needs to know about social work and racism today...recommend[ed]...for further reading and discussion at universities as well as by the public.\" European Journal of Social Work\u003cbr\u003e\"The book offers ideas and arguments that can contribute to a more critical and reflective stance on race and racism and the beginning of more informed, sensitive, and anti-racist methods of social work practice.  Strengths include an excellent glossary of terms and definitions.\" Choice\u003cbr\u003e\"The significance of this book is that it reasserts that social work needs to adopt a more radical approach to social work intervention and that this intervention needs to draw on anti-racist theories and practices.\" Critical and Radical Social Work\u003cbr\u003e“The growth of Islamophobia over the past decade alongside the rise of anti-Roma racism and increasing attacks on the idea of multiculturalism make it vital that we revisit and re-assess the role of anti-racist social work in the 21st century.  This book makes an invaluable contribution to that re-assessment”. Iain Ferguson, Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, University of the West of Scotland\u003cbr\u003e\"This book, which is currently needed more than ever, offers a valuable new generation of critical thinking about race, racism and social work. I hope it will help both social workers and those they work with to reverse these damaging times.\" Professor Peter Beresford, Brunel University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Race, Racism and Social Work ~ Michael Lavalette and Laura Penketh; Rethinking anti-racist social work in a neoliberal age ~ Gurnam Singh; The growth of xeno-racism and Islamophobia in Britain ~ Liz Fekete; The catalysers:  'black' professionals and the anti-racist movement ~ Charlotte Williams; \"Same, same, but different\" ~ Philomena Harrison and Beverley Burke; Antisemitism and anti-racist social work ~ Barrie Levine;  Anti-Roma racism in Europe: past and recent perspectives ~ Špela Urh; In defence of multiculturalism? ~ Gareth Jenkins; Social work and Islamophobia: identity formation among second and third generation Muslim women in north-west England ~ Laura Penketh; Institutionalised Islamophobia and the 'Prevent' agenda: 'winning hearts and minds' or welfare as surveillance and control? ~ Michael Lavalette; 'Street-grooming', sexual abuse and Islamophobia: an anatomy of the Rochdale abuse scandal ~ Judith Orr; My people? ~ Dave Stamp; Twenty-first century eugenics? A case study about the Merton Test ~ Rhetta Moran and Susan Gillett; The role of immigration policies in the exploitation of migrant care workers: an ethnographic exploration ~ Joe Greener; Conclusion: Race, racism and social work today: some concluding thoughts ~ Laura Penketh and Michael Lavalette.","brand":"Bristol University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408485851479,"sku":"9781447307082","price":77.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781447307082.jpg?v=1730503076","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/race-racism-and-social-work-9781447307082","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}