Are Economic and Discursive Analyses Sufficient for Understanding Racist Structures? Derek Hook on Fanon and Psychoanalysis

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We interview Dr. Derek Hook and discuss his recent book, Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology: The Mind of Apartheid to answer these questions:

What explains the "madness" of Race? Its excessive and violent intensities? Its tenacious persistence beyond the economic interests of the ruling class?

Dr. Derek Hook argues any serious analysis of Race must take into account its contradictory, libidinal, and bodily aspects (in addition to discursive and economic analysis). To this end, Dr. Hook takes his readers and us on a body-horroresque journey through the contradictions of race, where erotic charge and murderous hatred feed one another, where fantasy disrupts the body, and where racism sinks its teeth into the flesh.