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"In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne A. Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. She proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholy act - a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained, denigrated and idealized. Drawing upon history, literature and theatre - the book ranges from Rodgers and Hammerstein to David Henry Whang, Brown v. Board of Education to Anne Deveare Smith, Ralph Ellison to Maxine Hong Kingston - Cheng demonstrates that racial melancholia permeates our fantasies of citizenship, assimilation, and social health. A provocative look at a timely cultural dilemma, this study is essential reading for anyone interested in race studies, critical theory, or psychoanalysis."@en
"Cheng proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning and melancholia as inroads into her subject, Cheng offers a closely observed and carefully reasoned account of the minority experience as expressed in works of art by, and about, Asian-Americans and African-Americans. She argues that the racial minority and dominant American culture both suffer from racial melancholia and that this insight is crucial to a productive reimagining of progressive politics."
"When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts--indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different--we call that phenomenon emergence. When the chemicals diffusing in the primordial waters came together to form the first living cell, that was emergence. When the activities of the neurons in the brain result in mind, that too is emergence. In The Emergence of Everything, one of the leading scientists involved in the study of complexity, Harold J. Morowitz, takes us on a sweeping tour of the universe, a tour with 28 stops, each one high."@en

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"Criticism, interpretation, etc"
"Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
"Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)"
"Ressources Internet"
"Livre électronique (Descripteur de forme)"
"Electronic books"@en

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"The Melancholy of Race Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief. Race and American Culture"@en
"The melancholy of race : psychoanalysis, assimilation, and hidden grief"
"The melancholy of race"
"The melancholy of race"@es
"The melancholy of race"@en
"The melancholy of race : psychoanalysis, assimilation and hidden grief"
"The melancholy of race psychoanalysis, assimilation and hidden grief"@en
"The Melancholy of Race Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief"@en
"The Melancholy of race : psychoanalysis, assimilation, and hidden grief"

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