Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Race (Opening Out: Feminism for Today) - Softcover

Seshadri-Crooks, Kalpana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415192552 ISBN 13: 9780415192552

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

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 parallels that of sexual difference in making racial identity a fundamental component of our thinking.
Through close readings of literary and film texts, Seshardi-Crooks also investigates whether race is a system of difference equally determined by Whiteness. She argues that it is in relation to Whiteness that systems of racial classification are organized, endowing it with a power to shape human difference.

About this title

Review:

..."wide-ranging, witty, and erudite."
-"Choice

About the Author:

Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College, MA, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415192552
• ISBN 13: 9780415192552
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196