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Author Seshadri, Kalpana.

Title Desiring whiteness : a Lacanian analysis of race / Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks
Published London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource
Series Feminism for today
Opening out.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Key to Lacan's works; Introduction: on looking; Deciphering Whiteness; The object of Whiteness; Whiteness and the elephant joke; Looking alike: or the ethics of Suture; What's in a name? Love and knowledge beyond identity in ̃Recitatif̃; Discolorations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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 and index
Subject Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
SUBJECT Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
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
Psychoanalytic Theory
psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis
Conflict (Psychology)
Color vision
Psychoanalysis and racism
Race awareness
Race -- Psychological aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203454782
9780203454787