WHITE MINDS
Everyday Performance, Violence and Resistance
Genre:
Society, Current Issues
Author:
Guilaine Kinouani
Publisher:
Bristol U.P. - Policy Press
Language:
English
AUTHOR BIO:
Guilaine Kinouani is a psychologist and group analyst. She is the director and founder of Race Reflections, which is dedicated to tackling inequality, injustice and oppression. She previously taught critical psychology and black studies at Syracuse University in London and her long-standing involvement in anti-racism has deeply influenced her scholarship and thinking. Her award-winning work and writing have been featured in the media and her first book Living While Black exposed the impact of li...
Pages:
204
Publication:
2023
Rights available:
All except China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:
It is widely understood that race is a social fact with profound implications for life chances, group identity, collective representation and the social order. ‘
Whiteness’, the source of race-based inequality and injustice, is perpetuated through power, violence and an array of complex processes which help protect the status quo.
While there has been much focus on the psychological harm of racism on people of colour, less attention has been paid to the role of psychological functioning of white groups in maintaining unequal social configurations.
Kinouani deftly cuts to the heart of the problem, arguing that whiteness is a historically and socially located psychosocial phenomenon as much as one which evades time and space locations. She examines how the psychological and psychic factors involved in the reproduction of whiteness intersect with macro structures, shedding light on everyday race dynamics, race inequality and racial violence.
This book will be of interest to all who seek to become more effective anti-racists.
REVIEWS:
"A fascinating guide to naming, surviving, refusing and unmaking whiteness in the hope of liberation for all." Sadiah Qureshi, University of Birmingham "Essential: gripping, challenging, sustaining, potentially transforming reading for those fearful of grappling through the violence of whiteness, but who brave to go there anyway!" Shona Hunter, Co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness "A striking analysis of the white psyche, this is an urgent, powerful call to interrogate whiteness within and without and to transform the world." Stephanie Davis, Nottingham Trent University "A powerful, clearly written critical work on the mundane or everyday violence and cruelty of white supremacism and the conditions through which its fragility and projections are protected. A...
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