Being-in-America white supremacy and the American self
Introduction -- Brief Encounters -- Looking In From Outside -- The Hidden World -- A World of Play -- The Witch of Fourth Street -- Chestnuts and Cat's Eyes -- Girls and Boys -- Play and Becoming -- The Stutter -- The Periodic Pilgrimage Or Graveyard Picnics -- Education in Whiteness -- Concern...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Peter Lang
2024
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction -- Brief Encounters -- Looking In From Outside -- The Hidden World -- A World of Play -- The Witch of Fourth Street -- Chestnuts and Cat's Eyes -- Girls and Boys -- Play and Becoming -- The Stutter -- The Periodic Pilgrimage Or Graveyard Picnics -- Education in Whiteness -- Concerning Violence -- Home Sweet Home -- Materfamilias -- Parental Fears -- The Root Problem -- Alternate Parents Or The Silent Counteroffensive -- The Eldest Brother -- The Call of the Wild -- The Value of Willful Unknowing -- Poor Jack -- Beyond the Far Horizon -- Prophecy -- Signs and Portents -- Who Am I? -- A life in Many Worlds -- Audubon -- Memory Palace -- The Agency of Objects -- The White Supremacist Collective Unconscious -- The Socially Autonomous self and Anticipatory Connectivity -- Deprivations -- Set Being as Foundation for Artificial Intelligence Or The Object Triumphant -- The Übermensch -- Epilogue. "White supremacy and American style individual autonomy are mutually supportive and co-dependent. Attacking white racism will not dislodge white supremacy, which the author contends is the greatest danger facing America. That can only be accomplished by making concurrent and significant modifications in American style individualism. Yet, white supremacist thinking, feeling and acting and American individualism are protected by what the author describes as The White Supremacist Collective Unconscious, a culturally determined mental construct that Americans assimilate as they grow into adulthood, which endows all Americans, regardless of race, with a white supremacist mental orientation to one degree or another. Drawing on his personal experiences as an African American growing up in the United States, and on his research, the author details the development and workings of that unconscious, and the impact of white supremacy on the national character"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 257 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9783034350006 978-3-0343-5000-6 9781433194146 978-1-4331-9414-6 |