Internal Racism

Racism's external forms from racial assault to petty discrimination are readily recognized. However its internal dimensions are easily overlooked: how can we understand what happens in the mind of those engaged in or experiencing racism?This book explores the inner relationship between the self and the socially stereotyped 'racial' other providing a clinically derived model of how racist dynamics play out in the mind. Presenting an original theory of the psychology of racism it: --Reviews and analyses the existing literature on racism and psychoanalysis including an extensive study of Frantz Fanon's psychological model;