White Minds

Everyday Performance, Violence and Resistance

Guilaine Kinouani

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781447357469
• eBook ISBN: 9781447357476
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Clinical Psychology
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Endorsement
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Note on language
• Introduction
• 1 Whiteness, time and space
• 2 White gazes
• 3 White envy
• 4 White sadism
• 5 White trauma
• 6 White dissociation
• 7 White shame
• 8 White ambivalence
• 9 White complicity
• Whiteness and resistance: by way of conclusion
• References
• Index