{"product_id":"white-men-arent-paperback-softback-9780822329619","title":"White Men Aren't (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822329619","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhite Men Aren't\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas DiPiero (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822329619\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 September 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 14.9 x 2.7 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“This is an incredibly smart book, one that does an excellent job of joining its psychoanalytical with its historical and political arguments and offers surprising, provocative, and convincing conclusions.”-Sally Robinson, Texas A \u0026amp; M University\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e“White Men Aren't\u003c\/i\u003e is a lively and original analysis of the crisis besetting white male identity. It encourages the reader to think outside the box and to consider the premises of naturalized categories of thought. DiPiero has made a significant contribution to the fields of gender and race studies.”-Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, Boston College\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePsychoanalytic theory has traditionally taken sexual difference to be the fundamental organizing principle of human subjectivity. \u003ci\u003eWhite Men Aren’t\u003c\/i\u003e contests that assumption, arguing that other forms of difference-particularly race-are equally important to the formation of identity. Thomas DiPiero shows how whiteness and masculinity respond to various, complex cultural phenomena through a process akin to hysteria and how differences traditionally termed “racial” organize psychic, social, and political life as thoroughly as sexual difference does. White masculinity is fraught with anxiety, according to DiPiero, because it hinges on the unstable construction of white men’s cultural hegemony. White men must always struggle against the loss of position and the fear of insufficiency-against the specter of what they are not. \u003cp\u003eDrawing on the writings of Freud, Lacan, Butler, Foucault, and Kaja Silverman, as well as on biology, anthropology, and legal sources, Thomas DiPiero contends that psychoanalytic theory has not only failed to account for the role of race in structuring identity, it has in many ways deliberately ignored it. Reading a wide variety of texts-from classical works such as \u003ci\u003eOedipus Rex \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e to contemporary films including \u003ci\u003eBoyz 'n' the Hood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGrand Canyon\u003c\/i\u003e-DiPiero reveals how the anxiety of white masculine identity pervades a surprising range of Western thought, including such ostensibly race-neutral phenomena as Englightenment forms of reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Believing is Seeing \u003cbr\u003e 1. Complex Oedipus: Reading Sophocles, Testing Freud \u003cbr\u003e 2. Missing Links \u003cbr\u003e 3. The Fair Sex: It’s Not What You Think \u003cbr\u003e 4. In Defense of the Phallus \u003cbr\u003e 5. White Men Aren’t\u003cbr\u003e5. White Men Aren’t\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Afterword \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574569070872,"sku":"9780822329619","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/white-men-arent-paperback-softback-9780822329619","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}