Radical Philosophy Review

Volume 16, Issue 1, 2013

Critical Refusals, Part 1

A Note on Psychoanalysis and the Critical Study of Whiteness
Response to John Abromeit's "Whiteness as a Form of Bourgeois Anthropology?"

This brief response to John Abromeit’s “Whiteness as a Form of Bourgeois Anthropology?” takes up the ways in which, beyond Horkheimer, the Frankfurt School and psychoanalysis have shaped Roediger’s historical writings on whiteness. In particular, it considers as inspirations for those writings the work of Herbert Marcuse, Wilhelm Reich, George Rawick, and the surrealist tradition.