White Minds: Everyday Performance, Violence and Resistance

Race is a social fact with profound implications for life chances, group identity, collective representation, and the social order, and whiteness is a historically and socially located psychosocial phenomenon that evades time and space locations. Guilaine Kinouani's book 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. It is essential reading for all who seek to understand the impact of 'whiteness' and be more effective anti-racists.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 204 pages
Publication date: 26 October 2023
Publisher: Bristol University Press

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 color, 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.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781447357469