Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans

by David L. Eng

Book Overview

In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478001607
• ISBN13: 9781478001607
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"