CHILDREN'S RESPONSES TO RACIAL DIFFERENCES: TOWARDS A REVISION AND UPDATE OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC LITERATURE ON RACISM (LATENCY, NARCISSISM, DEVELOPMENT).
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Title
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CHILDREN'S RESPONSES TO RACIAL DIFFERENCES: TOWARDS A REVISION AND UPDATE OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC LITERATURE ON RACISM (LATENCY, NARCISSISM, DEVELOPMENT).
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Identifier
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AAI8501125
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identifier
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8501125
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Creator
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COLEBURN, LILA A.
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Date
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1984
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical
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Abstract
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The present paper undertakes to reappraise and revise the dominant psychoanalytic hypotheses on the developmental underpinnings of racism. It disputes the common attribution of primary importance to early negative association to darkness in the formation of prejudice against blacks and challenges the classical view of racism as a manifestation of anal or oedipal psychopathology. Existing studies of children's responses to racial differences are re-examined and data from original Piagetan-type interviews with children on their thoughts about the origins of racial differences are presented. Based upon this material and the developmental literature on latency, it is suggested that latency be considered the key phase and latency issues the critical ones in the development of racial consciousness. It is also argued that it is narcissistic issues (which have particular foci and resonances during the latency phase), rather than any specific psychosexual conflict, which typically imbue the experience of race with its primary affective colorings.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
