Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks

Desiring Whiteness (eBook, ePUB)

A Lacanian Analysis of Race

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Desiring Whiteness provides a compelling new interpretation of how we understand race. Race is often presumed to be a social construction and we continue to deploy race thinking in our everyday life as a way of telling people apart visually.

Seshadri-Crooks explores this visual discrimination by asking questions in specifically psychoanalytic terms: how do subjects become raced? Employing Lacan's theories of the subject and sexual difference, the author explores how the discourse of race parallels that of sexual difference in making racial identity a fundamental component of our thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134738601
• Artikelnr.: 47889826

Autorenporträt

Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College, MA, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Key to Lacan's works
Introduction: on looking
1 Deciphering Whiteness
2 The object of Whiteness
3 Whiteness and the elephant joke
4 Looking alike: or the ethics of Suture
5 What's in a name? Love and knowledge beyond identity in "Recitatif"
6 Discolorations
Notes
Bibliography
Index