Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans | David L. Eng, Shinhee Han

Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans | David L. Eng, Shinhee Han

February 15, 2019

In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation.