This book is a tour de force, a timely and urgent collection of essays by scholars at the very forefront of the intersection of the psychology and the political. Topics both contemporary and historical - race, otherness, trauma, slavery, ethics, 'whiteness' and neoliberalism (amongst others) are addressed in ways both invigorating and original, and in manner which changes how we think the role and pertinence of the psychological in the contemporary world.
Derek Hook, PhD, associate professor of Psychology, Duquesne University
Editors Goodman, Severson, and Macdonald have brought together a brilliant group of writers to discuss and illuminate American struggles with race, sexism, and classism. In this dark time, when the forces of hate and destructiveness threaten to run rampant world-wide, we need the deeply insightful, creative, and hopeful investigations provided by this volume. The interdisciplinary collection provides us with psychological, philosophical, political perspectives about some of the most wrenching dilemmas of our time. The country, the world, needs this book.
Philip Cushman, PhD, retired teacher and psychotherapist
David Goodman, Eric Severson and Heather Macdonald have put together a comprehensive resource that addresses the manifold challenges we face when confronting otherness-in all of its philosophical, psychological, and theological complexities. Race, Rage and Resistance does so by bringing into conversation a diverse group of scholars who underscore the manifest and latent ways that theories and practices of oppression keep us from forming and sustaining genuine community. Collectively, this volume of essays reinvigorates what the wisdom of the past, whether from Fanon, Freud, Lacan or Levinas, has to say about the urgent challenges of alterity we face today.
Jay-Paul Hinds, assistant professor of Psychology of Religion, Howard University
These thinkers are utterly determined to jar us out of any tired tropes about race, human relating, and history. The reader cannot help but be shaken and enlivened by the depth and reach of these ideas. Every philosopher, historian, psychoanalyst, academic, and humanitarian would do well to take on the challenge of engaging this work because these authors are fearless. They will march you into surprisingly dark and light-filled spaces.
Elizabeth Corpt, MSW; psychoanalyst, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis; faculty, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry; co-chief editor, Psychoanalysis, Self and Context
