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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780100403321

Autore

Mama Amina

Titolo

Beyond the masks : race, gender, and subjectivity / / Amina Mama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 1995

ISBN

1-134-96036-0

1-134-96037-9

1-280-32384-1

0-203-40549-8

0-203-32648-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Critical psychology

Disciplina

155.8496

Soggetti

Black people - Psychology

Feminist psychology

Black people - Race identity

Women, Black - England - London

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Enslaving the soul of the Other; Inventing black identity; Researching subjectivity; Locating the individual in history; Black British subjects; Psychodynamics of racialised subjectivity; Black femininity; Charting post-colonial subjectivities; Appendix; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An incisive and readable book which applies the insights of complex areas of contemporary social theory, first to investigate the history of racist psychology, and then to theorise the dynamics of black feminism.