Desiring Whiteness : A Lacanian Analysis of Race
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Opening Out: Feminism for Today
ISBN-10
0415192544
ISBN-13
9780415192545
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 25th, 2000
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
318 grams
Ksh 27,900.00
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A compelling new interpretation of how we understand race, using Lacanian analysis to explore the visual discrimination we make between races, and including close readings of literary and film texts.
Desiring Whiteness provides a compelling new interpretation of how we understand race. Race is often seen to be a social construction. Nevertheless, we continue to deploy race thinking in our everyday life as a way of telling people apart visually.
How do subjects become raced? Is it common sense to read bodies as racially marked? Employing Lacan''s theories of the subject and sexual difference, Seshadri-Crooks explores how the discourse of race parallels that of sexual difference in making racial identity a fundamental component of our thinking.
Through close readings of literary and film texts, Seshardi-Crooks also investigates whether race is a system of difference equally determined by Whiteness. She argues that it is in relation to Whiteness that systems of racial classification are organized, endowing it with a power to shape human difference.
How do subjects become raced? Is it common sense to read bodies as racially marked? Employing Lacan''s theories of the subject and sexual difference, Seshadri-Crooks explores how the discourse of race parallels that of sexual difference in making racial identity a fundamental component of our thinking.
Through close readings of literary and film texts, Seshardi-Crooks also investigates whether race is a system of difference equally determined by Whiteness. She argues that it is in relation to Whiteness that systems of racial classification are organized, endowing it with a power to shape human difference.
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