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Resonances of slavery in race/gender relations : shadow at the heart of American politics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flax, Jane
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2010]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Breaking feminist waves.
Subjects:
United States > Race relations > Philosophy.
Racism > United States > Philosophy.
Race discrimination > United States.
Sex discrimination against women > United States.
Slavery > United States > Psychological aspects.
Slavery > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Melancholy > Social aspects > United States.
United States > Politics and government.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : we aren't there yet
  • Shadow at the heart : race/gender domination and the melancholia of American politics
  • Melancholia : a genealogy
  • Fabricating subjectivity : Monster's ball, The deep end and Crash as enactments of race/gender in the contemporary United States
  • Paradise lost : race/gender melancholia and the limits of political liberalism
  • Politics for fallen angels : subjectivity, democratic citizenship, and undoing race/gender melancholia
  • In-conclusion : remedies and constraints.