Loving Whiteness to Death: Sadomasochism, Emotionality, and the Possibility of Humanizing Love

Autor/inn/en	Matias, Cheryl E.; Allen, Ricky Lee
Titel	Loving Whiteness to Death: Sadomasochism, Emotionality, and the Possibility of Humanizing Love
Quelle	In: Berkeley Review of Education, 4 (2013) 2, S.285-309 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1947-5578
Schlagwörter	Whites; Emotional Response; Caring; Social Attitudes; Social Values; Intimacy; Racial Factors; Critical Theory; Race; Sociology; Womens Studies; Social Psychology; Pain; Satisfaction; Mental Disorders; Sexuality; Humanization; Minority Groups + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? White; Weißer; Emotionales Verhalten; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Sozialer Wert; Intimität; Kritische Theorie; Rasse; Abstammung; Soziologie; Sozialpsychologie; Schmerz; Zufriedenheit; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Sexualität; Humanisierung; Ethnische Minderheit
Abstract	Although scholars have articulated how whites institutionally, economically, and socially invest in their whiteness, they have paid little attention to white emotionality. By explicating a critical, more humanizing theory of love that accounts for the painful process of sharing in the burden of creating humanity, this psychoanalytic theoretical essay illustrates how the norms and values of white emotionality are premised on a sadomasochistic notion of love. Finally, the authors re-imagine a different set of norms and values through a critical humanizing pedagogy of love, one that can only be realized when whites learn to "love whiteness to death." That is, whites need to find not just the political will but also the emotional strength (i.e., vulnerability) necessary to eliminate the white race as a sociopolitical form of human organization and free themselves and others from the shackles of the institution of race. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01