Summary

This article provides a reflexive account of qualitative research with Black female social workers in the North of England. It uses ‘Africanist Sista-hood in Britain’ as the theoretical framework guiding the research. The data are gathered from six semi-structured interviews and two focus groups. Data were analysed via thematic analysis. Participant data are used to discuss issues of identity, race and racism as they contribute to positions of visibility, invisibility and hypervisibility within the social work spaces discussed. The article challenges Western forms of knowledge production as the dominant discourse in social work research, practice, education and training and links this to wider issues of power, privilege and suppression of marginalised voices.

Findings

The findings section reveals examples of racism, marginality, invisibility and hypervisibility as part of the lived experiences of Black female social workers in the study. It includes discussions of ‘collective strategic projection’ as a consequence of the development of the ‘race taboo’ often present in these work environments.

Applications

The article calls for social work educators, practitioners and the wider academic field to do more to centralise anti-racist approaches in an attempt to challenge racism in social work.

中文翻译：

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黑人社会工作者：身份、种族主义、工作中的隐形/超可见性

概括

本文提供了对英格兰北部黑人女性社会工作者的定性研究的反思性说明。它使用“英国的非洲主义Sista-hood”作为指导研究的理论框架。数据来自六个半结构化访谈和两个焦点小组。通过专题分析对数据进行分析。参与者数据用于讨论身份、种族和种族主义问题，因为它们有助于所讨论的社会工作空间内的可见性、不可见性和超可见性的位置。文章挑战西方知识生产形式作为社会工作研究、实践、教育和培训的主导话语，并将其与更广泛的权力、特权和压制边缘化声音的问题联系起来。

发现

调查结果部分揭示了种族主义、边缘化、隐形和超能见度的例子，作为研究中黑人女性社会工作者生活经历的一部分。它包括对作为这些工作环境中经常出现的“种族禁忌”发展的结果的“集体战略规划”的讨论。

应用

文章呼吁社会工作教育者、从业者和更广泛的学术领域采取更多措施集中反种族主义方法，以挑战社会工作中的种族主义。