Sociological explanations of racism tend to concentrate on the structures and dynamics of modern life that facilitate discrimination and hierarchies of inequality. In doing so, they often fail to address why racial hatred arises (as opposed to how it arises) as well as to explain why it can be so visceral and explosive in character. Bringing together sociological perspectives with psychoanalytic concepts and tools, this text offers a clear, accessible and thought-provoking synthesis of varieties of theory, with the aim of clarifying the complex character of racism, discrimination and social exclusion in the contemporary world.
Autorentext
SIMON CLARKE is Co-director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies and a Reader in the School of Sociology at the University of the West of England, UK.
Inhalt
Sociology, Racism and Psychoanalysis
The Concept(s) of Race(s) and Racism(s)
New Racism(s) for Old
Sociology, Racism and Modernity
Freud, Racism and Psychoanalysis
The Frankfurt School: Paranoid Projection and the Persecuted Other
Colonial Identity and Ethnic Hatred: Fanon, Lacan and Zizek
Melanie Klein: Racism and Psychoanalysis
Projection, Projective Identification and Racism
Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Index.