Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Race

by Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415192552
• ISBN13: 9780415192552
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"