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Author Seshadri-Crooks, Kalpana, 1960-

Title Desiring whiteness : a Lacanian analysis of race / Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2000
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 182 pages) : illustrations
Series Feminism for today
Opening out.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Key to Lacan's works -- Introduction: on looking -- 1. Deciphering Whiteness -- 2. 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
Summary A compelling new interpretation of how we understand race, using Lacanian analysis to explore the visual discrimation we make between races, and including close readings of literary and film texts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-175) and index
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Subject Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
SUBJECT Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 fast
Subject Psychoanalysis and racism.
Race -- Psychological aspects
Race awareness.
Conflict (Psychology)
Psychoanalysis.
Color vision.
Conflict, Psychological
Psychoanalysis
Color Perception
Race Relations -- psychology
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Ethnopsychology.
Psychoanalysis
Conflict (Psychology)
Color vision
Psychoanalysis and racism
Race awareness
Race -- Psychological aspects
Form Electronic book
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