Against White Interiority - A Racial Critique of Therapeutic Reason (1st ed. 2023)

This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd.  Through a set of managerial and therapeutic discourses, this new sensibility describes the inner racial life of white subjects, inducing them to adopt a therapeutic attitude toward deeply interiorized white emotions and conflicts.  In so doing, the new racial sensibility promises to remake whiteness in the image of the self-aware racial ally.  However, such an appeal, it is argued, serves the subtle function of the preservation of white racial dispositions, and the reproduction of the very racism it sets out to transform. Adopting a critical lens derived from Michel Foucault’s analysis of sexuality, together with an engagement with sociological, psychoanalytic and phenomenological reflections on shame as a racial affect, a critique of white interiority considers alternative frames through which white anti-racist subjection might be imagined.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	July 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Sam Binkley
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Pages:	146
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-131827-6
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	3-03-131827-7
Barcode:	9783031318276

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