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Exploring four key points, this article develops a methodological analytical eye sensitive to race and racialization. The four points are: 1. Race is a social construct with racializing effects, 2. Race is not an individual characteristic and ethnic background is not an innocent variable, 3. Race is a relational phenomenon and intrinsic to European and Danish colonial thinking as debris rumouring in the welfare professional soil, and 4. Post-ethnic, post-national and post-migrant perspectives are possible. The purpose of the article is to provide research in welfare professions with an analytical eye that may function as basis for future collective discussions of this awkward matter, which is charged with affectivity and difficult to acknowledge.

In this article, an egalitarian project concerning children’s language in kindergartens is explored through the concepts racialization and doing good. The investigation is based on analyses of language testing material and an interview with a social educator. It is argued that the language test implies racial expectations, and that bilingual children are being embedded and interpreted within an understanding of monolingual, danish children’s development history. Furthermore, it is argued that the social educator’s urge to do good is performed through emotional investments in racial understandings of bilingual children. Finally, it is concluded that the project concerning children’s language contains racial debris, which does not constitute an unambiguous figure, but activates processes, which are initiated and maintained through racializing logics and emotional investments.