Is the Mirror Racist?: Interrogating the Space of Whiteness

Philosophy & Social Criticism

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-50

  Winnubst, Shannon ^a  

^a SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ego formation; embodiment; historicity; Lacan; ontological; phallus; race racial difference racism; space; visual; whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044469915     PISSN: 01914537     EISSN: 1461734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0191453704039397     Document Type: Article

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