Internal Racism : A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference

M Fakhry Davids
MacMillan Education UK
 9780333964576
0-333-96457-8

Racism's external forms, from racial assault to petty discrimination, are readily recognized. However, its internal dimensions are easily overlooked: how can we understand what happens in the mind of those.

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engaged in or experiencing racism?This book explores the inner relationship between the self and the socially stereotyped 'racial' other, providing a clinically derived model of how racist dynamics play out in the mind. Presenting an original theory of the psychology of racism, it: --Reviews and analyses the existing literature on racism and psychoanalysis, including an extensive study of Frantz Fanon's psychological model;