White Racism: A Psychohistory by Joel Kovel - 1970-01-01

Pantheon Books, 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. Pantheon Books [Published Date: 1970]. Hardcover, 300 pp. Stated First printing with number line starting at 2-9. Very good in acceptable dust jacket. Tan and black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1" or less chips and tears and creasing along edges. light overall scuffing and soiling to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From jacket flaps] White Racism: A Psychohistory is an experiment in the blending of several disciplines - history, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism - to try to systematically explore the nature of white racism in America. Dr. Kovel, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has drawn from his teaching experience, psychoanalytical thought, and the literature of several fields to forge his own approach to an understanding of the causes underlying the crisis in our culture. In studying the fantasies and symbols that have evolved throughout our past and in examining basic attitudes to children, relations, property, and power, we can find the origins of the irrational force that has become so central to the crisis: racism. Dr. Kovel brilliantly focuses on the basic symbols of darkness and light that have pervaded our culture, our attitudes to race and to ourselves. These indicate the contradictory strivings that have led to the peculiar balance of repression and aggression which characterizes the structure of our society. Reminiscent of the work of Norman O. Brown, Herbert Marcuse, Robert Lifton, and Erik Erikson, this new book presents the original contribution of an impressive young scholar. This is a genuinely daring, controversial, and important book bringing new insights to the basic problem facing America today. Born in 1936, Dr. Joel Kovel was educated at Yale, from which he graduated summa cum laude, and at Columbia University Medical School. At present a resident of New York City, he directs the undergraduate medical education program in psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. This is his first book. Jacket design by Jay J. Smith Studio