White Minds: Everyday Performance, Violence and Resistance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781447357469)

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. In this much-needed book, Guilaine Kinouani, a leading thinker and commentator on race, 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 understand the impact of 'whiteness' so they can be more effective anti-racists.

Author: Guilaine Kinouani
ISBN-10: 1447357469
ISBN-13: 9781447357469
Publisher: Policy Press
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2023
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d