Race, colour and the process of racialization : new perspectives from group analysis, psychoanalysis, and sociology / Farhad Dalal.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-237) and index.

What is race? -- An overview of the history and use of race -- Biology of race -- What is the relationship between the notions of race, culture and ethnicity? -- Black and white -- Power -- Racism : a working definition and a proposition -- Racism : the emotions and another proposition -- On the ephemeralness of racism -- Summary -- Cautions and caveats -- Using Freud to think about racism -- Using Klein to think about racism -- Using Fairbairn to think about racism -- Using Winnicott to think about racism -- Summary -- Metapsychologies : human nature -- Models of racism and prejudice -- The problem of the external, and the 'underlying' internal -- Racism and prejudice in psychoanalytic discourse -- Against the grain -- The difficulties and the limitations in the psychoanalytic theorization of racism -- Dollard : frustration-aggression -- Adorno : the authoritarian personality -- de Zulueta : relational schemas -- Rustin : racism as psychosis -- Kovel : anality -- Wolfenstein : epidermal fetishism -- A summation of the journey through the psychoanalytic scene -- Ideology -- The psychological consequences -- Psychopathology -- Liberation -- Bewilderers : the use of individualism against the native.

Racialization : the activation of difference by the colonized -- Nationalism -- Post-colonialism -- Elements of Foulkesian theory -- The notion of race -- Racism -- Power -- The civilizing process -- Symbol theory : language, knowledge, mind -- Emotion-a difference with psychoanalysis -- Conclusion -- The physics of 'seeing' black and white -- Roland Barthes and semiotics -- The Holy Bible -- A semantic history of 'black' and 'white' -- Conclusions -- Process reduction : habits of thought -- Matte-Blanco -- Reframing the instincts in the language of similarity and difference -- The Winnicottian schema -- Kinship : social psychology, sociobiology and Freud -- Foulkes : rethinking belonging -- Three modes of mental functioning -- Sustaining the divide -- Some conclusions -- The psyche, coloured and racialized -- Retrieving uniqueness : three caveats -- Elements of racism -- Some implications for the clinical setting -- Conclusions.

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Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected by race riots. It is argued by socio-biologists and some schools of psychoanalysis that our instincts are programmed to hate those different to us by evolutionary and developmental mechanisms. This book argues against this line, proposing an alternative drawing on insights from diverse disciplines including anthropology, social psychology and linguistics, to give power-relations a critical explanato.

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