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"For America to make progress and achieve a more just and equitable society in terms of race/gender it must mourn. Flax crafts a beautiful argument showing how this mourning process should take place and manifest itself in public policies designed to achieve equality. The myriad of public policy suggestions made by Flax is arguably the strength of this extensive and thorough analysis. This work comes at a critical time in U.S. history as we grapple with the notion of race 'neutrality' and the often longed for, but elusive state of post-racialism. It is sure to expand our understanding of race and gender and race/gender politics." - Julia S. Jordan-Zachery, Providence College
"Race/gender prejudice has taken a multitude of forms in American history, each marked by the 'original sin' of slavery. The latest form is denial that this complex history is still active, and pervasively so. The delusional idea that America is a 'post-racial society' has needed a thorough exploration and expose, and that is what Jane Flax provides in this book. As a psychoanalyst, she reveals the defensive and disguising functions the 'post-racial society' idea serves and the narcissism it reflects. As a political and legal theorist, she shows how it functions to perpetuate the race/gender prejudice it pretends is past." - Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, author of Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World and The Anatomy of Prejudices
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Book Title: Resonances of Slavery in Race/Gender Relations
Book Subtitle: Shadow at the Heart of American Politics
Authors: Jane Flax
Series Title: Breaking Feminist Waves
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117464
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10866-0Published: 19 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29145-8Published: 19 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11746-4Published: 14 November 2010
Series ISSN: 2945-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 223
Topics: North American Literature, Ethnicity Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism, African American Culture