Race, colour and the processes of racialization : new perspectives from group analysis, psychoanalysis and sociology

It is argued by socio-biologists and some schools of psychoanalysis that our instincts are programmed to hate those different to us by evolutionary and developmental mechanisms.

This book argues against this line, proposing an alternative drawing on insights from diverse disciplines including psychoanalysis, sociology, social psychology and linguistics, to give power-relations a critical explanatory role in the generation of hatreds.

Examining aspects of the subject over the past thousand years, Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialisation covers: Psychoanalytic and other theories of racism A new theorization of racism based on group analytic theory A general theory of difference based on the works of Fanon, Elias, Matte-Blanco and Foulkes Application of this theory to race and racism.

This book will be invaluable to students, academics and practitioners in the areas of psychoanalysis, group analysis, sociology, psychotherapy and counselling.