The Construction of Racial Identity in Children of Mixed Parentage: Mixed Metaphors - Brossura

Katz, Ilan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1853023760 ISBN 13: 9781853023767

Casa editrice: Jessica Kingsley Pub, 1996

Riassunto

For several decades the issues of race, identity and child development have been of major concern to policy makers and practitioners in social services. This book is a major contribution to this literature, and offers a radically new way of looking at some of these issues. Based on intensive research on interracial families with young children, the book reviews the previous literature relating to racial identity development, especially relating to biracial children, and shows it to be based on flawed assumptions.Using intensive observations and in-depth interviews with parents of biracial children the author shows the many ways in which inter-racial families deal with issues of identity and difference. He concludes with a discussion of alternative conceptions of identity, race and development which will provide both practitioners and policy makers with new ways to think about these issues.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ilan Katz received his degree in social work at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1978. After qualifying he came to the UK and has worked as a social worker and social work manager in local authorities and voluntary organisations. His main professional interests have been with children and people with learning disabilities. His current post is as National Evaluation Officer for the NSPCC, where he is involved with several projects evaluating child protection practice and has a part-time secondment to the Brunel University CEPPP. In 1994 he received his doctorate on The Development of Racial Identity in Infants of Mixed Parentage from Brunel University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Jessica Kingsley Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1853023760
• ISBN 13: 9781853023767
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 218
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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