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Podcast: New Books in Sociology
Episode: A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America
Description: The first podcast in this series was inspired by a documentary film made in 2014 called âBlack Analysts Speakâ as well as some of the findings in the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis published in 2023. It also considered the reasons why racism has persisted so long in America including perspectives from a psychoanalytic vantage point. Mechanism of defense, particularly projective identification was discussed as one specific reason why change has been slow. The host and co-host also talked about the some of the reasons why it is important for white people to listen to the Black experience. Dr. Martin Lut...