The Racist Fantasy
The Racist Fantasy What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. As long as this fantasy continues to underlie contemporary society, McGowan…
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The Racist Fantasy
What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. As long as this fantasy continues to underlie contemporary society, McGowan claims, racism will remain with us, no matter how strenuously we struggle against it.The racist fantasy, a fantasy in which the racial other is a figure who blocks the enjoyment of the racist, is a shared social structure. In The Racist Fantasy Todd McGowan argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious investment in a fundamental racist fantasy.
No individual is guilty for the emergence of the racist fantasy, but all individuals are responsible for keeping it alive. No one individual invented it, and no one individual is responsible for its perpetuation. To say that a society is racist is to say that a racist fantasy underlies its social order.The Racist Fantasy examines how