What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to
legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy, Todd McGowan
argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious
investment in a fundamental racist fantasy. As long as this fantasy
continues to underlie contemporary society, McGowan claims, racism
will remain with us, no matter how strenuously we struggle to
eliminate it. The racist fantasy, a fantasy in which the racial
other is a figure who blocks the enjoyment of the racist, is a
shared social structure. No one individual invented it, and no one
individual is responsible for its perpetuation. While no one is
guilty for the emergence of the racist fantasy, people are
nonetheless responsible for keeping it alive and thus responsible
for fighting against it. The Racist Fantasy examines how this
fantasy provides the psychic basis for the racism that appears so
conspicuously throughout modern history. The racist fantasy informs
everything from lynching and police shootings to Hollywood
blockbusters and musical tastes. This fantasy takes root under
capitalism as a way of explaining the failures and disappointments
that result from the relationship to the commodity. The struggle
against racism involves dislodging the fantasy structure and to
change the capitalist relations that require it. This is the
project of this book.
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