Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity

by Sheldon George

Book Overview

African American identity is racialized. And this racialized identity has animated and shaped political resistance to racism. Hidden, though, are the psychological implications of rooting identity in race, especially because American history is inseparable from the trauma of slavery.

In Trauma and Race author Sheldon George begins with the fact that African American racial identity is shaped by factors both historical and psychical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602587353
• ISBN13: 9781602587359
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"