White Men Aren't

by Thomas DiPiero

Book Overview

Psychoanalytic theory has traditionally taken sexual difference to be the fundamental organizing principle of human subjectivity. White Men Aren't 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822329611
• ISBN13: 9780822329619
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 2.7" x 12.0"