Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism

Sociological explanations of racism tend to concentrate on the structures and dynamics of modern life that facilitate discrimination and hierarchies of inequality. In doing so, they often fail to address why racial hatred arises (as opposed to how it arises) as well as to explain why it can be so visceral and explosive in character. Bringing together sociological perspectives with psychoanalytic concepts and tools, this text offers a clear, accessible and thought-provoking synthesis of varieties of theory, with the aim of clarifying the complex character of racism, discrimination and social exclusion in the contemporary world.

Simon Clarke is Associate Director at the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies and Lecturer in Sociology, University of West of England, Bristol.

Sociology, Racism and Psychoanalysis * The Concepts(s) of Race(s) and Racism(s) * New Racism(s) for Old * Sociology, Racism and Modernity * Freud, Racism and Psychoanalysis * The Frankfurt School: Paranoid Projection and the Persecuted Other * Colonial Identity and Ethnic Hatred: Fanon, Lacan and Zizek * Melanie Klein: Racism and Psychoanalysis * Projection, Projective Identification and Racism
Sociology, Racism and Psychoanalysis * The Concepts(s) of Race(s) and Racism(s) * New Racism(s) for Old * Sociology, Racism and Modernity * Freud, Racism and Psychoanalysis * The Frankfurt School: Paranoid Projection and the Persecuted Other * Colonial Identity and Ethnic Hatred: Fanon, Lacan and Zizek * Melanie Klein: Racism and Psychoanalysis * Projection, Projective Identification and Racism