The Racial Stereotype, Colonial Discourse, Fetishism, and Racism
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The racial stereotype, colonial discourse, fetishism, and racism.
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 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Psychoanalytic Review
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0033-2836
DOI: 10.1521/prev.2005.92.5.701