Trading spaces
Subtitle: the politics of care and the politics of race
By: by Georgia Antoinette Graham.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Child welfare -- Canada -- History.; Child welfare -- Political aspects -- Canada.; Poor laws -- Canada.; Children of minorities -- Social conditions -- Canada.; Poor children -- Social conditions -- Canada.; Foster children -- Social conditions -- Canada.; Children -- Institutional care -- Political aspects -- Canada.; Racism in social services -- Canada.
Description: Race and racism can be seen across a broad spectrum of human activities, organizations and interaction including Group Homes. This thesis explores the relationship between historical meanings of race and current practices of exclusion. This is achieved through genealogical exploration of the race concept as it frames the 17th century Poor Law and Child Welfare in Canada. A relationship is drawn between the emergences of a racial group identified as the poor in 17th century England and the current incarceration of the child through state care---Children's Aid Society. This relationship can be seen as the politics of care and the politics of race. The discourses that structure the politics of care and the politics of race are concerned with negotiations of altruism that define group membership in relation to social and economic value within community.
Notes: Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

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