Introduction : we aren't there yet -- Shadow at the heart : race/gender domination and the melancholia of American politics -- Melancholia : a genealogy -- Fabricating subjectivity : Monster's ball, The deep end and Crash as enactments of race/gender in the contemporary United States -- Paradise lost : race/gender melancholia and the limits of political liberalism -- Politics for fallen angels : subjectivity, democratic citizenship, and undoing race/gender melancholia -- In-conclusion : remedies and constraints
Summary
Jane Flax argues that a reciprocal relationship exists between unconscious processes and race/gender domination and that unless we attend to these unconscious processes, no adequate remedy for the malignant consequences of our current race/gender practices and relations can be devised. Flax supports her arguments using a variety of sources
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index
