Against White Interiority

A Racial Critique of Therapeutic Reason

Sam Binkley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 146 Seiten

2023 | 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-31827-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Sam Binkley is Professor of Sociology at Emerson College, Boston. He is the author of Happiness as Enterprise: An Essay on Neoliberal Life (SUNY) and Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s (Duke)

1 Introduction: Race's Shame.- 2 Whiteness and the New Racial Sensibility.- 3 Shame and White Inwardness.- 4 Guilt's Capture.- 5 Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.07.2023
Zusatzinfo	IX, 146 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	334 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Schlagworte	affect theory • anti-racism • Contemporary Culture • Critical Race Studies • Foucault • Governmentality • Philosophy of Race • racial inequality • Shame • therapeutic authority • therapeutic culture • WHITE FRAGILITY • whiteness • white privilege • white resistance • white subjectivity
ISBN-10	3-031-31827-7 / 3031318277
ISBN-13	978-3-031-31827-6 / 9783031318276
Zustand	Neuware