Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups

by Cynthia Burack

Book Overview

Group identifications famously pose the problem of destructive rhetoric and action against others. Cynthia Burack brings together the theory work of women of color and the tools of psychoanalysis to examine the effects of group collaborations for social justice and progressive politics. This juxtaposition illuminates some assumptions about race and equality encoded in psychoanalysis. Burack's discursive analysis suggests the positive, identity-affirming...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801489377
• ISBN13: 9780801489372
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher