Desiring Whiteness
A Lacanian Analysis of Race
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
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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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2000-05-25
- Mått156 x 234 x 11 mm
- Vikt360 g
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieOpening Out: Feminism for Today
- Antal sidor192
- FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
- EAN9780415192552