Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups

Cynthia Burack

Published by Cornell University Press 2004

Healing Identities

Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups

Cynthia Burack

In the series Psychoanalysis and Social Theory

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501726699

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About this book

Group identifications famously pose the problem of destructive rhetoric and action against others. Cynthia Burack brings together the theory work of women of color and the tools of psychoanalysis to examine the effects of group collaborations for...

Author / Editor information

Cynthia Burack is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at The Ohio State University.

Reviews

Mari Jo Buhle, author of Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis:

Healing Identities is a thought-provoking application of psychoanalysis to identity group discourse and an insightful overview of black feminist thought. It is simultaneously scholarly and political. Stimulating!

Cynthia Willett, author of Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debate:

At the center of Cynthia Burack's outstanding book is the hypothesis that, like individuals, groups can exhibit signs, not only of sickness but also of health. She distinguishes regressive groups from reparative groups, a distinction that is very timely and important for political and social theory that aims to deal with, not deny, social conflict.

Overall, it is refreshing to see Black feminism meticulously analyzed as a theoretical discourse and not simply exploited as a set of experiences that can be inserted into existing models to make up for past exclusions. Healing Identities does not simply 'add Black women and stir' into the stew of psychoanalytical and political theories of groups. Rather, to Burack's credit, the author seriously engages the issues of all three discourses.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. PSYCHOANALYSIS, RACE, AND RACISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
2. FROM PSYCHOANALYSIS TO POLITICAL THEORY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3. REPARATIVE GROUP LEADERSHIP Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
4. CONFLICT AND AUTHENTICITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
5. BONDING AND SOLIDARITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
6. COALITIONS AND REPARATIVE POLITICS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: Political Science & Political History; Discrimination & Race Relations

eBook

Published: August 6, 2018
ISBN: 9781501726699