Antiracism Discourse: The Ideological Circle in a Child World

Authors

Miu Chung Yan, San Francisco State University

Abstract

Antiracism is a dominant discourse in contemporary societies. The understanding of antiracism, however, varies. Government, through its own textually mediated organization of apparatus, tends to homogenize the discourse. This paper is to demonstrate, by employing institutional ethnography, how a child's act can ignite the socially organized textual engine to include the children's world in the ideological circle of antiracism discourse dominated by the government. Institutional ethnography, as demonstrated in this paper, is a useful tool for social workers to deconstruct the textual condition in which social work practice is embedded. The ideological circle is a powerful concept to help social workers to understand our social location in the ruling relations of the society.

Recommended Citation

Yan, Miu Chung (2003) "Antiracism Discourse: The Ideological Circle in a Child World," The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 30: Iss. 1, Article 8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.2877
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol30/iss1/8