Developing theory as a personal response to systemic entrapment.
The author describes her personal experience with professional powerlessness in relation to the attempt by an all-White agency to offer services to a diverse clientele and to increase diversity in staff. Her efforts to cope with (a) the challenge which this endeavor presented to current knowledge and practice, and (b) the ensuring conflict, confusion, and political machinations that occurred among staff led her to develop concepts and theory that elucidate the multilevel aspects of the interaction between diversity and power.
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