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Colonialist Interpellation
Conrad's Story
Conrad’s Story
critical race studies
DBM
difference
DNA Test
Ego's Era
Ego’s Era
Elephant Joke
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Extimate Object
Found Group Difference
Freud 1905c
fundamental
Generating Group Formations
Hostile Jokes
identity politics
Lacanian approach to race
master
Master Signifier
Objet Petit
postcolonial analysis
psychoanalytic theory
racial
Racial Signification
Racial Symbolic
Racial Visibility
Rigid Designation
Rigid Designators
Satapatha Brahmana
secret
Secret Sharer
seminar
Seminar XI
sexual
Sexual Difference
sharer
signifier
subject formation
Tendentious Jokes
visibility
visual signification
Younger Men
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- ISBN 9780415192552
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 May 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College, MA, USA
