White racism: a psychohistory
by Kovel, Joel
In an unusual, novel approach to critical race theory, Joel Kovel manages to tackle a subject that stumped so many theorists in the 1960s and 1970s: unconscious bias. White Racism: A Psychohistory presents a psychohistorical matrix of racism in an analysis of unconscious bias. Kovel's psychoanalytic approach to race is haunting in its approach to Western culture. With psychoanalytic calculation, White Racism probes the deep psychological and historical embedding of racism in Western civilizatio…
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- Full title :White racism : a psychohistory / by Joel Kovel.
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In an unusual, novel approach to critical race theory, Joel Kovel manages to tackle a subject that stumped so many theorists in the 1960s and 1970s: unconscious bias. White Racism: A Psychohistory presents a psychohistorical matrix of racism in an analysis of unconscious bias. Kovel's psychoanalytic approach to race is haunting in its approach to Western culture. With psychoanalytic calculation, White Racism probes the deep psychological and historical embedding of racism in Western civilization and provides a pessimistic view of future reform.
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- Publication Date:©1984.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1984.
The Physical Object
- Description:lviii, 301 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0231057962, 9780231057967, 0231057970, 9780231057974
- oclc:ocn604970853
- LC Classification:E185.615
- Dewey Decimal:305.8/00973
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