Female Subjects in Black and White : Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism

Focusing on the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation, the essays in this collection question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity.

The essays offer new ways of approaching African American texts with the aim of reframing thinking about the contexts, discourses, and traditions of the American cultural landscape.

Calling for the racialization of whiteness and claiming that the psychoanalytic theory should make room for competing discourses of spirituality and diasporic consciousness, these essays intend to bring together incompatibilities - as well as the transfomative possibilities - between white feminist and African American cultural formations.