1st Edition
Desiring Whiteness A Lacanian Analysis of Race
By Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks
Copyright 2000
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
Acknowledgments, Key to Lacan’s works, Introduction: on looking, 1 Deciphering Whiteness, 2 The 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, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College, MA, USA
