White Racism by Joel Kovel
In an unusual, novel approach to critical race theory, Joel Kovel manages to tackle a subject that stumped so many theorists in the 1960s and 1970s: unconscious bias. White Racism: A Psychohistory presents a psychohistorical matrix of racism in an analysis of unconscious bias. Kovel’s psychoanalytic approach to race is haunting in its approach to Western culture. With psychoanalytic calculation, White Racism probes the deep psychological and historical embedding of racism in Western civilization and provides a pessimistic view of future reform.
Kovel's book is a mind-blower, a serious attempt to grapple with racism simultaneously on historical and psychological levels, incorporating a concise and readable history of the specific human relation called 'white racism' by a perceptive culling of many different sourcesTelos A brilliant book, admirably and provocatively written...Books on 'race' are legion, but they are seldom as original and interesting as Joel Kovel's book...very much worth reading for the many insights it provides into the depths of a profound human tragedy. -- Ashley Montagu A singularly impressive and well written book. The New York Times
Joel Kovel has served as a professor in Psychiatry, Anthropology, Political Science, Social Studies and Communications. He is currently editor-in-chief of Capitalism Nature Socialism (http: //www.cnsjournal.org/). Kovel has developed his distinctive approach, which draws on both psychoanalysis and Marxism, across a wide range of publications. His ten books include The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? (2002), White Racism: A Psychohistory (1970) and Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America (1994). Kovel is also a political activist and a media commentator.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231057974 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231057970 |
| Title | White Racism |
| Author | Joel Kovel |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 1984-03-12 |
| Number of pages | 301 |
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