Hook, Derek (2005) Paradoxes of the other (post)colonial racism, racial difference, stereotype-as-fetish. PINS: Psychology in Society, 31. pp. 9-30. ISSN 1015-6046
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This paper draws on the work of Homi Bhabha to mount an explanation for a facet of(post)colonial racism, the “paradox of otherness” as exemplified in the racial stereotype.The paradox in question operates at the levels of discourse and identification alike. As a mode of discourse the stereotype functions to exaggerate difference of the other, whilst nevertheless attempting to produce them as a stable, fully knowable object. As mode of identification, the stereotype operates a series of mutually exclusive categories differentiating self and other which unintentionally nevertheless relies upon a grid of samenesses. These two paradoxes follow a similar movement: an oscillation, at the level of discourse, between attempts to generate and contain anxiety, a wavering, at the level of identification, between radical difference and prospective likeness. Bhabha provides a structural and functional analogue with which to account for this double movement of otherness: Freud’s model of fetishism. This is an analogue that both enables us to foreground the operations of displacement and condensation in racist stereotyping, and to draw a series of conclusions about the effective functioning of discursive and affective economies of racism.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.pins.org.za/ |
| Additional Information: | ⓒ2005 University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban |
| Divisions: | Psychological and Behavioural Science |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2009 10:41 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 13:10 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/22017 |
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