Shifting Identities Shifting Racisms A Feminism & Psychology Reader

by Kum-Kum Bhavnani; Ann Phoenix

• ISBN13: 9780803977877
• ISBN10: 0803977875
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-05-11
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

This collection makes an important contribution to contemporary feminist and psychological debates on identities and racisms. It addresses issues of commonalities, differences, subjectivities and the contradictory nature of positionings which are central concerns for feminist and anti-racist politics.Leading feminists examine: the ways in which psychology has reproduced racism; the complexity of issues of identities and racisms which are shown to be multiple, constantly variable and renegotiable; the need to problematize and unpack 'whiteness'; and the problems of identity politics both in terms of explanatory power and political action.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

Shifting Identities Shifting Racisms - Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Ann Phoenix

An Introduction

PART TWO: ARTICLES

Shifting the Subject - Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Donna Haraway

A Conversation between Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Donna Haraway, 12 April 1993, Santa Cruz, California

Resisting Racism and Sexism in Academic Psychology - Karen L Henwood

A Personal//Political View

Empowering Women? The /f003Oprah Winfrey Show - Corinne Squire

Harmonious `Heimat' and Disturbing `Ausl[um]ander' - Nora R[um]athzel

Contradictory Positions, Ambivalent Perceptions - Philomena Essed

A Case Study of a Black Woman Entrepreneur

Asian Women's Ethnic Identity - Anne Woollett et al

The Impact of Gender and Context in the Accounts of Women Bringing Up Children in East London

Di(s)-secting and Dis(s)-closing `Whiteness' - L Mun Wong

Two Tales about Psychology

Experience, Identities and Alliances - Erica Burman

Jewish Feminism and Feminist Psychology

Women, Ethnicity and Empowerment - Nira Yuval-Davis

PART THREE: OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTARIES

I. The Politics of White and Black Bodies - Barbara Trepagnier

II. White Women's Identity and Diversity - Shari Tarver-Behring

Awareness from the Inside Out