Unconscious racism names how primordial feeling-structures become racialized

Evidence

From a psychoanalytic standpoint, “unconscious racism” is therefore first and foremost a description of what happens to certain elementary structures of feeling and fantasy when they become racialized. Or to put it another way round, we are looking at how processes of racialization (which may be variously political, cultural and/or economic, institutional or informal, depending on context and conjuncture) engage with and affect the “other scenes” of self-identification. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1241

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