Eng / Han Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation

On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0268-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

David L. Eng and Shinhee Han draw on psychoanalytic case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore how first- and second-generation Asian American young adults deal with difficulties such as depression, suicide, and coming out within the larger social context of race, immigration, and sexuality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eng, David L.

Han, Shinhee

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
Introduction: The History of the (Racial) Subject and the Subject of (Racial) History 1
Part I: Racial Melancholia
1. Racial Melancholia: Model Minorities, Depression, and Suicide 33
2. Desegregating Love: Transnational Adoption, Racial Reparation, and Racial Transnational Objects 66
Part II. Racial Dissociation
3. Racial Dissociation: Parachute Children and Psychic Nowhere 101
4. (Gay) Panic Attack: Coming Out in a Colorblind Age 141
Epilogue 174
Notes 181
Bibliography 203
Index 213

Über Autor(innen)

David L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Shinhee Han is a psychotherapist at The New School and in private practice in New York City.