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1 online resource |
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Palgrave pivot |
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Palgrave pivot.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: White Secrets: An Uncomfortable Introduction -- 1 Interiority and the Racial Dispositif -- 2 Toward an Ambivalent Anti-Racism -- References -- Chapter 2: The New Racial Sensibility -- 1 A White Awakening -- 2 Governing the Racial Subject -- 3 Woke Reading and the Speechifying Effect -- 4 The White Toothache -- References -- Chapter 3: White Shame and Racial Abandonment -- 1 Exposure -- 2 On the Other Side of Time -- 3 A Paranoid Episteme -- 4 The Master of Racial Truth -- References -- Chapter 4: Guilt's Capture |
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1 Privilege and the Road to Recovery -- 2 Therapeutic Alchemy -- 3 Otherness and the Privatization of Shame -- 4 Subaltern Governmentality? -- References -- Chapter 5: Beyond the Confessing Animal -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd. Through a set of managerial and therapeutic discourses, this new sensibility describes the inner racial life of white subjects, inducing them to adopt a therapeutic attitude toward deeply interiorized white emotions and conflicts. In so doing, the new racial sensibility promises to remake whiteness in the image of the self-aware racial ally. However, such an appeal, it is argued, serves the subtle function of the preservation of white racial dispositions, and the reproduction of the very racism it sets out to transform. Adopting a critical lens derived from Michel Foucaults analysis of sexuality, together with an engagement with sociological, psychoanalytic and phenomenological reflections on shame as a racial affect, a critique of white interiority considers alternative frames through which white anti-racist subjection might be imagined. Sam Binkley is Professor of Sociology at Emerson College, Boston, USA. He is the author of Happiness as Enterprise: An Essay on Neoliberal Life (2014) and Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s (2007) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 26, 2023) |
| SUBJECT |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. cantic |
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White people -- Race identity.
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White people -- Psychology
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Race awareness -- Therapeutic use
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Racism -- Prevention
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Racism -- Prevention.
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White people -- Psychology.
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White people -- Race identity.
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Identitat racial.
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Discriminació racial.
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Relacions racials.
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| Genre/Form |
Llibres electrònics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031318283 |
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3031318285 |
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