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Desiring Whiteness : A Lacanian Analysis of Race by Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Desiring Whiteness : A Lacanian Analysis of Race about?
Desiring Whiteness provides a compelling new interpretation of how we understand race. Race is often seen to be a social construction. Nevertheless, we continue to deploy race thinking in our everyday life as a way of telling people apart visually. How do subjects become raced? Is it common sense to read bodies as racially marked? Employing Lacan's theories of the subject and sexual difference, Seshadri-Crooks explores how the discourse of race parallels that of sexual difference in making racia
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780203260890
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Psychology, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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