ABSTRACT
Based on a small qualitative research project in which supervisors and supervisees were interviewed about their experience of how race and culture were addressed in their training and within their team. This chapter considers ways in which questions of race, culture and ethnicity are raised in supervision and how these impact upon the therapist and supervisor and their relationship. It is crucial to discuss culture in relation to race and ethnicity. Karamat Ali suggests that culture is a concept that people are more familiar discussing than that of race and that this emphasis on culture has overshadowed thinking and talking about race as a separate and legitimate subject. Culture used to be considered as "something out there", a social concept, but is often seen as being something which is "inside" a person, a psychological state. Racialization of identities intersects with ethnicities, culture, class and gender and as Brah points out, is the site of multiple contradictions.
