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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954560803321

Autore

Dalal Farhad

Titolo

Race, colour and the processes of racialization : new perspectives from group analysis, psychoanalysis and sociology / / Farhad Dalal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hove, [England] ; ; New York : , : Brunner-Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-94549-3

0-203-76867-1

1-134-94542-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

155.8/2

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and racism

Race - Psychological aspects

Race awareness

Racism

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 (p. [230]-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Rethinking race -- 2. Psychoanalysis and racism -- 3. Peeking into the consulting room -- 4. Other psychoanalytic theories of racism -- 5. Fanon : the colonial context -- 6. Foulkesian group analysis -- 7. Power : the generator of difference -- 8. Black and white -- 9. Categorization : the vicissitudes of difference -- 10. Racism : the vicissitudes of racialized differences.

Sommario/riassunto

Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected by race riots. It is argued by socio-biologists and some schools of psychoanalysis that our instincts are programmed to hate those different to us by evolutionary and developmental mechanisms. This book argues against this line, proposing an alternative drawing on insights from diverse disciplines including anthropology, social psychology and linguistics, to give power-relations a critical explanato