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