Against White interiority : a racial critique of therapeutic reason

Against White interiority : a racial critique of therapeutic reason / Sam Binkley.

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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Binkley, Sam, 1963- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Series:Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:
Foucault, Michel, > 1926-1984.
White people > Race identity.
White people > Psychology.
Race awareness > Therapeutic use.
Racism > Prevention.
Identitat racial.
Discriminació racial.
Relacions racials.
Llibres electrònics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: White Secrets: An Uncomfortable Introduction
  • 1 Interiority and the Racial Dispositif
  • 2 Toward an Ambivalent Anti-Racism
  • References
  • Chapter 2: The New Racial Sensibility
  • 1 A White Awakening
  • 2 Governing the Racial Subject
  • 3 Woke Reading and the Speechifying Effect
  • 4 The White Toothache
  • References
  • Chapter 3: White Shame and Racial Abandonment
  • 1 Exposure
  • 2 On the Other Side of Time
  • 3 A Paranoid Episteme
  • 4 The Master of Racial Truth
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Guilt's Capture
  • 1 Privilege and the Road to Recovery
  • 2 Therapeutic Alchemy
  • 3 Otherness and the Privatization of Shame
  • 4 Subaltern Governmentality?
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Beyond the Confessing Animal
  • References
  • Index

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